Parents born outside the US... it Trump going to "birther" Harris?

[Demovictory9]

the double standard that was allowed to flurish in 2016!!! Trump has the same immigrant history as Obama... yet Trump painted Obama as the "other".

will he get away with it with Harris?

[DonaldsRump]

1. Yes and no.

Trump is a dipshite. He is desperate and will try anything now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No.

[gollygee]

3. Even after it didn't work with Obama?

I don't know why he'd bother trying that again when it's a proven fail.

[Demovictory9]

5. it worked to some extent. Much of his base believed Trump's lies

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Racists will latch on to anything to justify their racism.

Trump provides them with a smorgasbord.

[uponit7771]

14. It didn't work with the middle and Trumps base didn't win him the election last time

[gollygee]

18. Obama won both times. nt

[smirkymonkey]

25. And only his base is going to go for it.

It's not going to work. People are tired of this shit. She was born in this country and she can prove it. End of story.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

4. let them try--Biden/Harris steam roller will crush it

Trump actually sounds disconcerted and worried. I love that he is such an egotistical lizard brain he can't even tap into Biden's logic in choosing a former opponent who "dissed" him on debate stage.

[SheltieLover]

12. Right!

Lizzard brain - love it! And dissed by a female, yet. Likely very confusing to him.

[SeattleVet]

6. Oh, he'll definitely go there.

The 'very fine people' over at freeperville are already deep into all of the conspiracies, with a heavy concentration on the birther crap.

[KentuckyWoman]

8. He'll try and it will hurt him.

Oh not with his own faithful, but it will cost him few percentage of votes.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. He'll be foolish to try.

Kamala Harris is a natural-born U.S. citizen, having been born in Oakland, CA. There is no question of her eligibility.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/11/fact-check-kamala-harris-citizen-eligible-serve-president/3344836001/

[elleng]

10. tramp doesn't know where Hawaii is.

[SheltieLover]

15. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know it's true, and not really funny.

[Stallion]

11. Since She was Born in the United States There is no Constitutional Issue Whatsoever

from Wikipedia:

Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California.[1] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a breast-cancer scientist who had emigrated from India in 1960 to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at UC Berkeley.[8] Her father, Donald Harris, is a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, who emigrated from British Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at UC Berkeley.[9][10]

[SiliconValley_Dem]

16. but was she realllyyy...? that's how Birther/QAnon types roll

[Retrograde]

19. So was Obama - didn't stop the birthers

I would only be mildly surprised if Barr tried to pull some sort of challenge, such as her parents were only here on student visas or some such nonsense. But since birthright citizenship is an established law upheld by the Supreme Court I doubt that even a right-leaning Court will buy that.

[BGBD]

24. The wingnuts have already started...

Their argument now is that because her parents were not US citizens, then she is just an American Citizen by birth and not a "Natural Born Citizen.

Of course that's garbage. The Supreme Court found that anyone who was born in the US is a citizen regardless of parental status over 200 years ago. The only exceptions here are people who are not in "dominion" of the US, which only applies to foreign diplomats and invading armies.

I certainly hope this catches on with Team Trump though. I'd love for them to be seen trying to push birtherism on the first black woman to be nominated as Vice President by a major party. It would be laughed at and help to unite anyone who isn't a kool-aid drinking cultist against him.

[Mariana]

28. They don't interpret "natural born citizen" that way.

They conjure up their own ideas about what that phrase means, based on their fevered imaginations and what they wish was true. Then they convince themselves to believe the crazy bullshit they just made up, and they expect everyone else to believe it, too.

[RockRaven]

13. He can try. The racist underpinning is absolutely there.

I suppose to rightwingers, Oakand CA is just as unreliable of a source of birth certificates as Hawaii was.

Will MAGATs really buy in fully on that a second time? Seems like they'd want a new conspiracy theory. Just for variety, you know.

[PatSeg]

17. What the hell?!?!

Trump's mother was born outside of the U.S. and may not have even been a legal immigrant. His grandparents were from Germany and two of three wives were immigrants. I guess they didn't come from shit-hole countries.

[dawg day]

20. Trump's mother was born in Scotland.

The mothers of FOUR of his children were born in the Soviet Bloc.

I don't think that will go very far. He's blown his wad way too early and often.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

21. My Facebook news feeds full of

SHE'S NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN

SMH

[sanatanadharma]

22. Both of George Washington's parents were not born in the USA

So, there is precedent for the 2024 President of the USA.

[Celerity]

23. the first 7 POTUS's were not born in the US

Martin Van Buren was the first

[bdjhawk]

26. And she went to high school in Canada!!

That makes her a radical socialist, doesn’t it?!!!
Quelle horreur!!!

[Ms. Toad]

27. Already trying . . .

CLAIM: If Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate she will not be eligible to serve as president because her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. That means, if Biden is unable to serve a full term as president, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would be next in line to become president.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat who represents California, is a natural-born U.S. citizen who is eligible to serve as president.

THE FACTS: Facebook users are spreading a false claim that Harris is not able to serve as president.

https://apnews.com/afs:Content: 9205550851

(Copy the full line above, paste into the URL, remove the space between the colon and the 9 - since those turn into a smiley face with a tongue sticking out)

[OhioBlue]

29. I'm reading Mary Trump's book and one line that struck me was that

Trump's mom made annual trips home to Scotland. It made me think about how tRump projects all of his vulnerabilities, liabilities and failings onto others.... Was his entire attack on Obama about the location of his birth really a projection..... was tRump really born stateside? Really Ann Dunham had no reason or foresight into her son's future to fake the location of his birth. But.... it does sound like something the Trumps might do.