In 1988, a youthful Joe Biden dropped his first bid for the White House after being caught plagiarizing parts of his campaign stump rhetoric. It was a blow that took him more than 30 years to recalibrate. Now, VP Kamala Harris has been credibly accused of plagiarism of a far more serious variety. And while it is unlikely that history will repeat itself, the echoes of the past and the obvious concordance may add weight to an already burdened run for the presidency.
Kamala’s Career Launchpad
Harris launched her successful bid for attorney general of California, in part, on the back of her 2009 book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.” It detailed how prosecutors and politicians needed to be more reform-minded in their approach to criminal justice. A new report by Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber and…
