‘Birther’ conspiracy theory hits Kamala

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Updated At : 01:06 PM Aug 15, 2020 IST

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Washington: Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been hit by a “birther movement”, with US President Donald Trump saying he had heard that she didn’t meet requirements to serve the White House. As per the US Constitution, the president needs to be born in the United States.

California senator Kamala, 55, was born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. The conspiracy theory about Harris started after a Newsweek Op-Ed by Dr John Eastman, who ran in the Republican primary to be California’s attorney general in 2010. The Biden campaign called opinion piece racist.

Biden campaign member Ajay Bhutoria said Harris, born in Oakland, California, on October 20 in 1964, was a natural born US citizen. — PTI

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