After sticking mainly to set events and campaign rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris has been on an extensive media tour in recent days, from traditional shows such as CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d to popular targeted programs such as the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast and Howard Stern\u2019s radio show. Harris tends to hew to the facts \u2014 and many of the same lines \u2014 leaving little opportunity for fact-checking. Here\u2019s a roundup of claims that caught our attention from her appearances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act. It was not taken up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Remarks on \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d aired Oct. 7<\/p>\n
This is misleading. Harris made this comment in response to a question about why the Biden-Harris administration did not institute a border crackdown earlier. Readers might get the impression from her comments that the legislation involved tougher border security.<\/p>\n
But the bill Biden proposed was called the U.S. Citizenship Act and it mostly focused on creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and expanding legal immigration. Unlike a bipartisan Senate bill crafted earlier this year, it did not call for additional Border Patrol agents \u2014 something that Harris now says is essential \u2014 and it did not change the asylum process. Instead, it had modest provisions \u201cto deploy technology to expedite screening and enhance the ability to identify narcotics and other contraband at every land, air, and sea port of entry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a Glock. And I have had it for quite some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Remarks on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d<\/p>\n
This raises more questions. A Harris campaign aide declined to say when she acquired the firearm, pointing only to a 2019 news report that says she had acquired it \u201cmany years before.\u201d The article quoted her as saying: \u201cI am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do \u2014 for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her remarks in 2019 suggest that she acquired the gun when she was San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011. That\u2019s also when she sought to restrict handgun ownership.<\/p>\n
In 2005, she supported a ballot measure to prohibit San Francisco residents from possessing handguns within San Francisco, though it may not have applied to a prosecutor. \u201cAn exception would allow residents to possess handguns if it is required for specific professional purposes,\u201d Proposition H said. \u201cFor example, San Francisco residents who are security guards, peace officers or active members of the U.S. armed forces would be permitted to possess handguns.\u201d<\/p>\n
The measure passed but later was thrown out by the courts.<\/p>\n
Glock pistols have magazines with a minimum of 10 rounds \u2014 and some are higher. Harris has proposed a ban on large-capacity magazines, generally defined as more than 10.<\/p>\n
The Harris campaign aide would say only that the gun is in a secure location in her home in California.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have cut the flow of fentanyl by half.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Remarks on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen \u2026 the intake of fentanyl reduced by half.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Remarks on \u201cThe View,\u201d Oct. 8<\/p>\n
This is false. The Harris aide said she was speaking about the more than doubling of fentanyl seizures during the Biden-Harris administration, from 11,200 pounds in fiscal year 2021 to 27,000 pounds in fiscal year 2023, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. In fiscal year 2024, with just one month of data left to count, seizures have dropped to 19,700 pounds.<\/p>\n
We wouldn\u2019t call this merely misspeaking, since she made the same incorrect claim in different interviews conducted days apart.<\/p>\n
Moreover, fentanyl seizures are an imperfect metric. It could mean that law enforcement is doing a better job. But more seizures also might indicate that the drug flow has increased, and that law enforcement is missing even more. Donald Trump, when he was president, also touted drug seizures as positive, but now he and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), cite the data to claim the amount of fentanyl coming into the United States is at an all-time high.<\/p>\n
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After sticking mainly to set events and campaign rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris has been on an extensive media tour in recent days, from traditional shows such as CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d to popular targeted programs such as the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast and Howard Stern\u2019s radio show. Harris tends to hew to the facts \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}