{"id":9855,"date":"2024-08-19T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:19:26","slug":"regardless-of-her-parents-origins-kamala-harris-is-an-american-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/regardless-of-her-parents-origins-kamala-harris-is-an-american-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Regardless of her parents’ origins, Kamala Harris is an American citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a>\u00a0(in Albanian) was published on 5\/8\/2024; Author: Pustina Patris<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Claim: Kamala Harris is ineligible to become President of the United States because she does not hold U.S. citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict: False<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After President Joe Biden announced that he would not be running in the November 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, a claim<\/a> has spread on social media suggesting that Harris cannot become President because she is not a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questioning the citizenship or birthplace of U.S. presidential candidates is a recurring strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former President Obama faced persistent<\/a> claims that he was not born in the U.S. throughout his campaign and two terms in office. These claims were also propagated<\/a> by his successor, former President Trump, who is expected to run against Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. However, before his 2016 presidential bid, Trump eventually conceded<\/a> that Obama was born in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, leading up to the presidential election, Trump again questioned<\/a> Kamala Harris’s eligibility, claiming he had ‘heard’<\/em> she was ‘not qualified’<\/em> to be vice president. It’s notable that both Harris and Obama are people of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim that Kamala Harris does not have U.S. citizenship is completely false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris has served as Vice President of the United States from 2020 to 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criteria to become vice president are identical to those for president: being a natural-born U.S. citizen, being at least 35 years old, and having resided in the U.S. for a minimum of 14 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, if Harris did not meet the qualifications for the presidency, she would not have been able to serve as vice president for the past four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her birth certificate<\/a>, reviewed by the Associated Press<\/a>, confirms that she was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, U.S. Her mother, a scientist from India, and her father, an economist from Jamaica, met while studying at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the 14th Amendment<\/a> to the U.S. Constitution, anyone born on U.S. soil is deemed a U.S. citizen and is eligible to hold the offices of president or vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original article\u00a0(in Albanian) was published on 5\/8\/2024; Author: Pustina Patris Claim: Kamala Harris is ineligible to become President of the United States because she does not hold U.S. citizenship Verdict: False \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 After President Joe Biden announced that he would not be running in the November 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[462,10,15],"class_list":["post-9855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-kamala-harris","tag-politics","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t