Vice President Kamala Harris did not plagiarize multiple passages in her 2009 book, Smart on Crime, campaign spokesman James Singer claimed in a Tuesday statement.
The claim contradicts Harris’s allies in the media, including the New York Times and the New Republic, which reported that she plagiarized multiple passages in her book. Some of the lengthy messages lifted were from Wikipedia and the Associated Press.
“Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” campaign spokesman James Singer alleged.
Conservative journalist Christopher Rufo exposed the plagiarism based on research by Dr. Stefan Weber, a respected Austrian expert on plagiarism.
“This is a book that’s been…
