Birtherism 2.0 Takes a Run Up the Flagpole

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David Corn,
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Oh boy! Birtherism is getting another trial run:

I’ve been getting emails/tweets about the (completely false, utterly racist) “Kamala Harris isn’t a natural-born American” narrative for weeks, but it seems to be ramping up up on the fringes of the right now that she’s said she’s running. pic.twitter.com/PuBTMSkSxy

— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) January 22, 2019

I hope Kamala has her long-form birth certificate ready. Plus her certificate of being a natural-born homes from Oakland. I am so, so not looking forward to a year of this crap before the snow even starts to fall in Iowa, or wherever we’re having our first primary/caucus this cycle.