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It's no surprise that the 2020 presidential election was a tense run. President Donald
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Trump often referred to President-elect Joe Biden as "Sleepy Joe" and brought up
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the Swine Flu as evidence that Biden could not take over a pandemic-stricken America.
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On the other hand, Biden dug into the reignited Black Lives Matter movement
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in America and declared Trump "one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history."
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris also received her fair share of disapproval
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from Trump. In an interview following the October 2020 vice presidential debate,
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Trump called Harris a "monster" and "unlikeable." It's safe to assume
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that any person running for political office is prepared to face the fiercest criticism. However,
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Harris might not have anticipated the latest reason she's in hot water. An
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interview Harris did with Elle magazine has resurfaced, and it's already haunting her.
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The Elle interview from October 2020 is making the rounds again because people are accusing
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the vice president-elect of plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr. In the interview,
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Harris tells a story supposedly from her childhood about when she became briefly
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separated from her mother at a civil rights march in Oakland, California,
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after falling out of her stroller. Once they reunited, Harris says this exchange happened:
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"My mother tells the story about how I'm fussing, and she's like,
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'Baby, what do you want? What do you need?' And I just looked at her and I said, 'Fweedom.'”
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Several Twitter users noted that the story is shockingly similar to one told by MLK
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in a January 1965 interview with Playboy magazine. In his narrative,
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the civil rights icon tells a story of a 7- or 8-year-old Black girl who marched with her
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mom in a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, and was accosted by policemen. According to King,
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"'What do you want?' the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked at him
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straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom.' She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew.
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It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations,
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the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.”"
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This is not the first time Harris has used this "Fweedom" anecdote. She referenced it
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in her 2010 book Smart on Crime and detailed it again in her 2019 book The Truths We Hold:
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An American Journey. She also told the story to Jimmy Fallon in June 2020.
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"And she said, 'Kamala, what do you want?' And I said, and this is how she would say
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it, and she said, 'Kamala, what do you want?' and I said, 'Fweedom.'"
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Naturally, people took to the internet to air their grievances about Kamala Harris'
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strikingly familiar story. One Twitter user wrote,
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"She is learning how to plagiarize and lie like Biden. They make a good con artist team."
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Another person wondered why she didn't just give credit to Martin Luther King
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Jr. instead of possibly fabricating an entire story. And several people,
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in fact, mentioned that Harris was following in the footsteps of Joe Biden. The former vice
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president came under fire in 2019 for his "Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental
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Justice," which included sentences copied directly from environment groups with no credit given,
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according to NBC News. This was not the first time he had been accused of plagiarism.
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Opponents of Biden and Harris had previously used plagiarism accusations as a way to weaken
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the public's trust in the team. Sean Hannity of Fox News reminded his viewers in July 2020,
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"Plagiarism [is] nothing new for Joe Biden. In the 1980s,
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he was forced to end his presidential campaign [when] he was caught red-handed plagiarizing
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a British politician by the name of Neil Kinnock word-for-word on multiple occasions."
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Furthermore, people were quick to point out that this isn't the first time Harris has
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been associated with plagiarism. Politico reported in 2019 that Harris appeared to plagiarize parts
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of the since-deleted gender equality section of her website. The publication noticed that
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Harris seemed to use information from the American Heart Association website also without citation.
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The vice president-elect has not addressed the most recent allegations,
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as of the making of this video.
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