October Suprise?: Supporters Race to Kamala Harris’ Defense After Conservative Publication Targets Her with Plagiarism Accusations Two Weeks Before Election

Running against a candidate known for shading the truth, if not flattening it with a steamroller, Vice President Kamala Harris has positioned herself as someone who can be trusted. But a second round of accusations that she plagiarized someone else’s words without attribution could damage that credibility, providing, at the very least, an unwanted distraction as the campaign enters its final two weeks. The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that, in written congressional testimony from 2007 supporting legislation creating a student loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors, Harris copied almost verbatim writings from a Republican in favor of the bill. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th National Convention on July 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. The American Federation of Teachers is the first labor union to endorse Harris for president since announcing her campaign. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images) “Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there,” The Free Beacon found. “They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error — a “who” that should have been a...