Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t plagiarize a number of passages in her 2009 guide, Sensible on Crime, marketing campaign spokesman James Singer claimed in a Tuesday assertion.
The declare contradicts Harris’s allies within the media, together with the New York Occasions and the New Republic, which reported that she plagiarized a number of passages in her guide. Among the prolonged messages lifted have been from Wikipedia and the Related Press.
“Rightwing operatives are getting determined as they see the bipartisan coalition of help Vice President Harris is constructing to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions on his lies,” marketing campaign spokesman James Singer alleged.
Conservative journalist Christopher Rufo uncovered the plagiarism primarily based on analysis by Dr. Stefan Weber, a revered Austrian skilled on plagiarism.
“It is a guide that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes all through,” Singer added.
The marketing campaign’s assertion comes in the future earlier than it is going to permit Harris to take a seat for an interview Wednesday with Fox Information’s Bret Baier, who presumably would ask Harris about her most up-to-date scandal. The subject didn’t come up when Harris appeared for a Tuesday interview with Charlamagne tha God.
The scandal seems to rise to the extent of an October shock, CNN reported:
CNN reviewed a number of of the passages highlighted by Rufo and located that Harris and O’C. Hamilton did not correctly attribute language to sources.
Plagiarized works embody utilizing another person’s work with out giving them correct and acceptable credit score for his or her concepts and phrases. Even when the supply of the data is cited, it’s nonetheless thought of plagiarism if the concepts should not paraphrased or quoted within the appropriate place, specialists instructed CNN late final yr.
In a single occasion, Harris and O’C. Hamilton seem to have lifted some language from a John Jay School of Legal Justice press launch with out correct attribution. The guide copies precise language and sections of the press launch however fails to make use of citation marks in a number of sentences, in keeping with an evaluation of the guide and the press launch.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart Information and a former RNC Warfare Room Analyst. He’s the creator of Politics of Slave Morality. Comply with Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Fact Social @WendellHusebo.
