Kamala Harris Fact-Check: How Accurate Was Her 2024 DNC ...
Reflecting Democrats’ optimism that the presidential race has shifted in their favor over the past month, Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.
Harris is the second woman to become a major-party presidential nominee, the second Black nominee and the first Asian. In a 37-minute speech — roughly one-third the length of former President Donald Trump’s at the Republican National Convention in July — Harris retold the story of her upbringing in a “beautiful working-class neighborhood” in San Francisco’s East Bay. She described being a child of divorce who was raised with the help of people, “none of them family by blood, and all of them family by love.”
As she has at recent rallies, Harris leaned into several key policy themes: abortion rights, voting rights and support for Ukraine as it fights a continuing Russian invasion. Broaching an issue Democrats have sometimes been reluctant to raise — immigration — Harris dared Republicans to oppose a revival of a bipartisan immigration bill that GOP lawmakers abandoned earlier this year under pressure from Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
As Harris sounded notes of unity and optimism, she also expressed disdain for her opponent. Harris said, “In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
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Here are fact-checks of some of Harris’ statements on the convention’s fourth and final night.
