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PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his biggest challenge in debating Vice President Kamala Harris is that she has shifted her positions on so many issues. She's changed all of her policies over the years," Trump told NBC News in a phone interview Tuesday morning hours before the debate here. He added, however, that he believes that makes it "easier" to define her in the minds of voters. Three sources who speak to Trump regularly, including one directly involved in the debate prep process, described Trump as either nervous or disengaged with debate preparation in the past few weeks. Trump, too, has frequently shifted his positions over the years, including on issues like abortion, TikTok and even birtherism.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, She's, Trump, It's Harris, —, Harris, he's, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump’s Organizations: PHILADELPHIA, NBC News, ABC, NBC

☆ Trump Reaches for His Birther Bag of Tricks - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For years, before he won the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Donald Trump was something like the spiritual leader of the Republican Party’s right-wing base. Birtherism made Trump a celebrity on the right. It made him so popular with Republican voters that, while fighting to win the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney ventured out to Las Vegas to receive Trump’s blessing and support. To attack the former president, Trump liked to insinuate that he wasn’t born in the United States. “He’s spent millions of dollars trying to get away from this issue,” Trump said in 2011.

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☆ Byron Donalds, potential VP pick, once attacked Trump and praised outsourcing, privatizing entitlements
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | Em Steck | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“President Trump is considering Byron as his running mate because of the Congressman’s steadfast support for the 45th President and his historic policy agenda. Donalds rose to prominence in Trump world last year when the Florida congressman endorsed Trump over Florida Gov. While Trump has asked allies their thoughts on Donalds as vice president, advisers have acknowledged the complications of this scenario given they both are residents of Florida. But Donalds’ embrace of Trump when running for Congress was a far cry from his tea party activism a decade ago. During his 2012 campaign for Congress, Donalds heavily embraced calls to privatize Social Security and Medicare – two programs Trump (and Donalds) now promise not to cut.

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☆ Fact Check: Kamala Harris eligible to be president despite misleading posts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

An Instagram post shares an image that says, “Kamala Harris is NOT a ‘natural born Citizen” per Art II Sec. She is missing 2 of the 3 legs of the ‘natural born Citizen’ test. Kamala can’t be president!”The screenshot goes on to say, “Con Artist Kamala… NOT Natural Born Citizen… NOT Eligible to be President or Vice-President!!! A White House bio also states clearly that Harris’ parents were immigrants from Jamaica and India. Posts suggesting that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to be president are based on a false claim that Harris is not a “natural born citizen” of the U.S.

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☆ Fact Check-Obama’s father’s passport circulates online and reignites ‘birther’ conspiracy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A British passport listing a Kenyan province as the holder’s place of birth belongs to Barack Hussein Obama, father of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Images of the document, however, have been misrepresented online with social media users falsely claiming it shows the former president’s passport. The passport document garnered traction online after Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s half-brother and a vocal critic of his, tweeted four photographs of the passport on April 13 (here). The captions identify the document as: “Barack Obama-Barack Obama Sr. -British Passport.”Reuters has previously debunked similar claims about Obama (here here)VERDICTFalse. Photos depict the passport of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s father.

☆ Obama zings 'birtherism' antics he faced as president while stumping for Wisconsin Democratic Senate nominee Mandela Barnes: 'Get ready to dig up that birth certificate'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Obama mocked GOP "birtherism" while boosting Mandela Barnes' Wisconsin Senate bid. During a Friday rally, Obama mocked Republican campaign attempts to paint Barnes as "different." Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin's high-stakes Senate race. Johnson is currently averaging a 3.4% lead over Barnes on FiveThirtyEight using data from the most recent polls. Tony Evers, who is up for reelection this fall against Republican businessman Tim Michels, defeated two-term GOP Gov.

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