Trump Campaign Stops Casting Suspicions Over Harris Eligible to be VP – By Ken Bredemeier (VOA News) / Aug 16 2020
WASHINGTON – The White House agreed Sunday that Democratic California Senator Kamala Harris is eligible to become vice president, ending false suggestions echoed by President Donald Trump that she was ineligible to serve if she is elected in November because she was born in the United States to immigrant parents.
Harris, now 55 and picked last week by former Vice President Joe Biden to be his running mate in November’s national election, was born in in 1964 in the western city of Oakland, California. She is the daughter of an Indian woman who had emigrated to the U.S. to attend graduate school and a father from Jamaica, making her the first Black woman to be on a major party national ticket in the U.S.
Under the U.S. Constitution, she is an American by birthright, by being born in the U.S.
“In our opinion, it’s case closed,” Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week.”
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