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Kamala Harris can’t create property tax for reparations

October 12, 2020

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Lawmakers have been trying to pass reparation bills for descendants of slaves. Here’s why it’s taken so long – and how it might work.

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The claim: Kamala Harris said she’ll place a federal tax on homes to pay for reparations

Since she was chosen, misinformation about Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris has spread online. One social media post claims Harris’ views on reparations for slavery will lead to a new tax.

“GET READY TO PAY A FEDERAL TAX ON YOUR HOME FOR REPARATIONS!!, YES!!, KAMALA HARRIS SAID THAT!!” the Facebook post reads.

The post’s creator did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.

More: California to study, consider reparations for Black residents after landmark law passed

Harris didn’t say that, but she does support reparations in some form

In this context, “reparation” refers to the compensation to descendants of American slaves. The idea of

Kamala Harris-Mike Pence debate fact check: COVID, jobs, taxes

October 11, 2020

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The Vice Presidential debate had less arguing and a lot more talk about the issues, but there were still a few heated moments.

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In the first and only vice presidential debate, Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence parroted many of the false and misleading claims we have heard from the top of the tickets.

Harris misleadingly said President Donald Trump’s tax law benefited “the top 1% and the biggest corporations.” Actually most households received some tax cut.
Pence said that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “is going to raise your taxes.” Biden’s plan says that’s true only for Americans making over $400,000 a year.
Pence said that if the 2009 H1N1 pandemic had been as lethal as the novel coronavirus, “we would have lost 2 million American lives.” That’s a misleading comparison.
Pence said “many” of the people in a crowded Rose Garden event “were

Vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence kicks off in Utah

October 10, 2020

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The virus took center stage in the skirmish between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris.

October 8, 2020

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As Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris clashed over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday night, Mr. Pence defended the White House’s record without addressing its fundamental failures, while Ms. Harris accused him and President Trump of presiding over a public-health catastrophe.

Ms. Harris delivered a comprehensive denunciation of the Trump administration’s policies, ranging from the economy and climate change to health care regulation and taxes.

As Ms. Harris attacked Mr. Trump, the vice president sought to recast Mr. Trump’s record on the pandemic and other issues in conventional and inoffensive terms, though often in plain defiance of the facts.

The vice president made misleading or plainly false claims about White House policies on a range of subjects weighing down Mr. Trump in the presidential race.

Mr. Pence claimed that the president had a plan to protect people with pre-existing medical conditions, even though he

In debate, Kamala Harris says she won’t take COVID vaccine just on Trump’s say-so

October 8, 2020

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Sen. Kamala Harris of California said during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence that she does not trust the administration’s push to rush a coronavirus vaccine into production.

“If the public health professionals, if Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it. Absolutely,” Harris said during the live debate in Salt Lake City, when she was asked if Americans should take a vaccine, if the Trump administration were to approve one either before or after the election. “But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it. I’m not taking it.”

The debate moderator, Susan Page, asked Pence a different question, but Pence took the opportunity to respond to Harris.

The Democratic nominee for vice president, Sen. Kamala Harris, speaks during the debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on Oct. 7, in Salt Lake City. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images) — The Democratic nominee for vice president, Sen. Kamala Harris, speaks during the debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah

Vice presidential debate: Kamala Harris claims she won’t take vaccine if Trump recommends

October 8, 2020

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she would not take a vaccine recommended by President Trump during a heated debate clash over the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Harris accused Vice President Mike Pence, head of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, of failing to disclose critical information to Americans in the early days of the pandemic. When asked about a poll showing half of Americans would not take a vaccine as soon as it is available, Harris indicated that she was skeptical of Trump’s involvement in the rollout of a potential vaccine.

“If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely,” Harris said. “But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not taking it.”

Harris, citing a recent report from Washington Post journalist

Vice presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence debate

October 8, 2020

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The two candidates for vice president are participated in their only debate of the election on Wednesday night.

The 90-minute debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence covered a variety of topics. We fact checked statements made by both candidates.

Coronavirus

The first topic discussed was the coronavirus pandemic.

Pence lauded President Donald Trump’s travel restrictions on China during the beginning stages of pandemic. Pence said Biden called that order “xenophobic.” Our partners at FactCheck.org say that’s unclear.

On the day Trump imposed the travel restrictions, Biden criticized Trump for his “record of hysteria and xenophobia,” but it is unclear whether Biden was referring to Trump’s travel restrictions, or Trump’s overall qualifications to deal with the epidemic.

Pence also said the Obama administration left the federal stockpile of emergency medicine and supplies empty when Trump took office. FactCheck.org says that claim is false, though some materials were

Kamala Harris Doesn’t Trust Trump’s Word on Vaccines. She’s Not Alone

October 8, 2020

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump’s word on a potential COVID-19 vaccine in Wednesday’s debate, and polling suggests she is not alone in distrusting the president on this point.

Kamala Harris sitting at a table: Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in the vice presidential debate against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, on October 7, 2020.

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) participates in the vice presidential debate against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, on October 7, 2020.

Harris was asked whether she would take a vaccine if one were approved by the Trump administration, during her head-to-head with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday.

“If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it, absolutely,” she said. “But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not taking it.”

Sen. Harris says she will take Covid-19 vaccine if supported by public

Fact check: Claims from Mike Pence and Kamala Harris at the VP debate

October 8, 2020

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PENCE, on the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation: “It was found that there was no obstruction, no collusion. Case closed. And then, Sen. Harris, you and your colleagues in the Congress tried to impeach the president of the United States over a phone call.”

THE FACTS: That’s a mischaracterization of Mueller’s nearly 450-page report and its core findings.

Mueller did not absolve the president of obstructing the investigation into ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Instead, his team examined roughly a dozen episodes in which the president sought to exert his will on the probe, including by firing his FBI director and seeking the ouster of Mueller himself. Ultimately, Mueller declined to reach a conclusion on whether Trump had committed a crime, citing Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president. That’s not the same as finding “no obstruction.”

On collusion, Mueller said he did not

Fact check: Mike Pence describes Kamala Harris as radical

October 8, 2020

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Claim: President Donald Trump and supporters say Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, is a mean-spirited radical leftist eager to shrink police forces and embrace Medicare for All.

Rating: Largely untrue.

Details: In the eight weeks since she’s been on the Democratic ticket, Trump has called Harris “vicious” and “extraordinarily nasty.” Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Harris “applauds defunding of the police.” Harris wants to put “bureaucrats in charge of the nation’s health care system,” said GOP national spokeswoman Liz Harrington.

The high-powered campaign against Harris is highly unusual, said vice presidential campaign expert Joel Goldstein.

“President Trump has devoted an unusual amount of campaign rhetoric to attacking Senator Harris,” said Goldstein, a professor emeritus of law at Saint Louis University. “The Republicans have been unable to make a case against VP Biden, so President Trump is assailing Sen. Harris.”

A California U.S. senator,

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