CLAIM: Former President Donald Trump “would terminate the Constitution of the United States,” Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on The View.
VERDICT: FALSE. Trump vowed many times to protect the Constitution.
“He has said he would terminate the Constitution of the United States,” Harris said, regurgitating a false narrative from the establishment media.
In 2020, CNN wrote the headline: “Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post.
The story read:
Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.
“Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social and accused “Big Tech” of working closely with Democrats. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Trump’s post came after the release of internal Twitter emails showing deliberation in 2020 over a New York Post story about material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Kamala Harris Underperforming Joe Biden in Key New York Districts
Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be underperforming Joe Biden in key New York districts, giving Republicans a slight edge for this election.
A report from Semafor showed that Harris’s poor showing in the Empire State could make it more difficult for the Democrats to tip the U.S. House in their favor on Election Day.
“Harris is neck and neck with Donald Trump nationwide, yet polls show the vice president lagging behind Biden’s 2020 performance in this blue state,” reported the outlet. “Those lackluster numbers could prove problematic for Democrats trying to take back the House, since most in the party believe a strong showing in Empire State battleground districts could decide the balance of power in the chamber next year.”
A recent poll from Siena College, for instance, showed that Kamala Harris has not reached Joe Biden’s 22-point winning margin from 2020. While Harris will likely beat Trump in the Empire State this election, her poor showing might affect certain House races, especially in swing districts.
“Generically, the fact that the top of the ticket is not doing as well at the moment as the top of the ticket did four years ago potentially makes the job of Democrats in marginal swing seats more difficult,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) celebrated the news on social media.
Rep. Greg Meeks, chair of the Queens Democratic Party in New York, disagreed that Harris will have a poor showing in New York, citing her support in Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s Long Island district and in the Westchester district.
“The GOP’s current narrow majority stems from a 2022 midterm election that didn’t yield a Republican wave nationwide but did deliver surprising victories in some of the state’s suburban and rural districts by focusing on crime and inflation; this year, they’re looking to the same themes along with immigration in their bids to hang on,” noted Semafor.
As Breitbart News reported on Monday, Kamala Harris also seems to be having trouble in Michigan where Arab-American voters have begun to sour on her candidacy due to the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The New York Times profiled the sudden split Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan have made with Kamala Harris — a voting bloc of 300,000 people in a swing state.
“Four years ago, President Biden won Michigan with strong backing from many of those Americans. But interviews this weekend with voters, activists and community leaders in the Detroit area suggested that support for the Democratic ticket has not merely eroded among Arab Americans and Muslims,” noted the Times. “In some neighborhoods, it has all but vanished.”
Harris on Her and Biden Weakening Border Policy: We’ve Offered ‘Solutions’ from Start
During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired on Monday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on if it was a mistake for the Biden-Harris administration to loosen immigration policies as much as they did by stating that the border is “a longstanding problem.” And “the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem,” and “from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.”
“60 Minutes” Correspondent Bill Whitaker asked, “I’ve been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a problem that started with your administration. But there was [a] historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?”
Harris responded, “It’s a longstanding problem. And solutions are at hand, and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.”
Whitaker followed up, “What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?”
Harris responded, “I think — the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem, okay.”
Whitaker cut in to say, “But the numbers did quadruple under your watch.”
Harris responded, “And the numbers today, because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half, we have cut the flow of fentanyl by half. But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.”