Soofia Tariq

WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for US president.

OUR VERDICT

False. Ms Harris is eligible.

AAP FACTCHECK – False claims about US Vice President Kamala Harris have emerged online after she became the Democrats’ likely presidential nominee.

Social media posts claim Ms Harris is ineligible to run for US president because she’s not a “natural born citizen”.

This is false. The vice president was born in California and is eligible to run.

“Kamala Harris is not a natural born citizen”, one Facebook post claims.

“Article II of the Constitution specifies that “[n]o person except a natural born citizen…shall be eligible to the office of President.”

It adds: “Her father was (and is) a Jamaican national, her mother was from India, and neither was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of Harris’ birth in 1964. “That, makes her not a “natural born citizen”—and therefore ineligible for the office of the President.”