Newsweek runs “birther” editorial from antigay activist claiming Harris is ineligible to be Veep

Senator Kamala Harris
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Birther conspiracy theories claiming that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) isn’t eligible to be Vice President have already started being spread on Newsweek and on Facebook, just two days after former Vice President Joe Biden named her as his running mate in the 2020 presidential election.

The “Harris birthers” concede that the esteemed senator was born in Oakland, California, but they claim that she’s not really a natural-born citizen because her parents immigrated to the U.S. from India and Jamaica. Some of them are even calling her an “anchor baby.”

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Newsweek published an editorial by John Eastman – who’s chairman of the board of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an anti-LGBTQ organization – that argued that the 14th Amendment requires one’s parents to be citizens in order to be a full citizen of the U.S., a rule that may surprise many people born to immigrants.

Eastman noted that major fact-checking sites like Snopes and PolitiFact already rated the claim “False,” but he still insisted that she isn’t eligible.

The 14th Amendment says…

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