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Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): A taped segment with Vice President Kamala Harris will be featured on the "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars" season finale on Friday—marking her first known major TV appearance since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Harris for president. [...] While she is the first vice president to be on the show, Harris is not the first politician. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on "Drag Race" twice—once in 2018 and once in 2022—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., guest judged in 2020 and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared on Canada’s Drag Race in 2022. Harris launched her presidential bid Sunday after Biden announced he would be ending his reelection campaign. She immediately garnered support and energy from the Democratic Party, gaining enough electoral votes after just two days to clinch the presidential nomination. Harris has long been a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and was one of the first elected officials to back marriage equality publicly in 2004 when she officiated same-sex weddings on Valentine’s Day as a district attorney, The 19th reported. After announcing her presidential run, Harris also quickly secured the endorsements of LGBTQ+ organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, Advocates for Trans Equality and more.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Kamala Harris urges viewers to vote in 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' appearance: Watch Vice President Kamala Harris is going from the presidential race to the "Drag Race." [...] Harris' appearance was filmed weeks ago, before she launched her own campaign for president, according to Variety and Deadline. But it will air in a very different context, just days after President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is dropping out of the presidential race.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-08-17): Kamala Harris will appear on the season nine finale of "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars" advocating for voting. [...] Taped a few weeks before Harris announced her bid for the presidency, Harris joined judge Michelle Visage, Emmy-nominated choreographer Jamal Sims, Lance Bass, Leslie Jones, and Cheyenne Jackson and made her plea, encouraging Americans to register to vote. She has long been an advocate for human and civil rights, and a champion for marriage equality. Last month, Harris hosted a Pride month reception in partnership with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. "Drag Race" season 16 winner Nymhpia Wind, "All Stars" queens Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Plastique Tiara, and Billy Porter were among the guests. On Wednesday night, the Human Rights Campaign backed Harris’ White House bid. They said, "In the Senate and as Vice President, Kamala Harris has been a champion for the Equality Act, which would ensure comprehensive non-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ+ community, and the Respect for Marriage Act, which secured federal marriage protections."
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree — and Vice President Kamala Harris wants to remind them of the context they exist in. Ahead of Friday’s (July 26) finale episode of All Stars 9, Drag Race shared an official clip set to air in the first moments of the episode, where the vice president stopped by the workroom — alongside Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, choreographer Jamal Sims and special guests Leslie Jones, Lance Bass and Cheyenne Jackson — to share some words of encouragement for those watching at home. [...] The new clip arrives just as Vice President Harris takes the baton from President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election. The commander in chief announced Sunday (July 21) that he was dropping out of the race, and quickly endorsed Harris. In the days since Biden’s announcement, Harris’ campaign reports that they have $126 million dollars in support of the vice president.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-08-01): After Joe Biden stepped down from the presidential race on July 21st, Kamala Harris began her campaign for the White House. [...] As Vice President Kamala Harris begins campaigning for her presidential bid, E2024 spoke with a member of LMU College Republicans to gauge how young conservative voters feel about the new presidential candidate. [...] R.R.: Yeah, I see why Gen Z is excited right now. We, you know, it's a politician talking about our trends, our "Brat Girl Summer," you know, [who is] going on TV shows that people like by, you know, once the rubber meets the road and once people start to remind themselves of why Kamala Harris failed in the 2020 presidential primary or the track record that she's attached to under the Biden administration, I think a lot of people are going to sour on her very quickly.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Emhoff, 59, the husband of US vice-president Kamala Harris, explained to attendees on a fundraising call organized by a group called Black Gay and Queer Men for Harris that he was with "a gay couple friend" having "coffee, messing around and talking" when people started coming up to them. [...] As California attorney general, she was involved in efforts to abolish gay and transgender "panic" defenses in criminal trials but also backed the state when it sought to deny gender-affirmation surgery to a trans prisoner. Among the queer-themed merchandising on Harris’s campaign website are "Kamala Trans Pride" sticker sets and mugs with her wearing different pant suits in colors that, put side-by-side, echo the rainbow. [...] Meanwhile, Harris had crashed the season finale of the hit show RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, urging Americans to vote, the Associated Press reported, in an appearance taped before Biden dropped out of the campaign and anointed her as his preferred successor.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-08-20): During a standout moment of the incredible Pride Month 2024, the Human Rights Campaign and GIFFORDS came together with Vice President Kamala Harris and other LGBTQ+ allies and advocates to celebrate our work, remember why we fight and prepare for the mission ahead. [...] "Every year that we celebrate Pride, we must also remember all of what is at stake and recommit to fighting for the promise of America, which is a promise of freedom and equality and justice." - Vice President Kamala Harris
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-26): The producer adds, "We started talking to the Vice President's team in the spring of this year [2024] and it was filmed prior to her launching her own presidential campaign. We worked together and decided to start the Grand Finale with an extra special message from the Vice President. I mean, who better to amplify our voter registration message than Kamala Harris herself?" Kamala Harris on the set of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' The coincidental timing between the filming of Harris' segment for All Stars 9 and the news of her launching her presidential campaign is fascinating, but it's not the first time for Drag Race — and for Campbell himself — to experience such a serendipitous moment.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-29): The vice president's campaign team has posted four videos since launching the channel – @KamalaHarris. The first video lasted only for eight seconds with the cameraperson asking "Madam vice president, are you on TikTok?" She replied, "Well I heard recently that I was on the For You Page (recommended videos), so I thought I would get on her myself." The first two videos garnered nearly 2 million followers. [...] Another video on the TikTok channel @KamalaHarris includes a previously released clip of the vice president taking a phone call with former President Barack Obama and Michelle when they endorsed her. The fourth video on the account consists of clips from her visit to the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she met contestants. [...] Another video on the TikTok channel @KamalaHarris includes a previously released clip of the vice president taking a phone call with former President Barack Obama and Michelle when they endorsed her. The fourth video on the account consists of clips from her visit to the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she met contestants.Also Read : Kamala Harris’ popularity level surges after Joe Biden’s exit; What else does this survey indicate?
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Kamala Harris, Coconut Meme Queen, Just Joined TikTok (Exclusive) [...] On Thursday, July 25, the Harris for President campaign launched a principal TikTok account for the vice president under the handle, @KamalaHarris. The move expands Harris' digital footprint and builds upon the campaign’s already active TikTok account, @KamalaHQ. [...] Since Biden’s endorsement of Harris’ candidacy, the @KamalaHQ account on TikTok has more than tripled its following, growing from 440,000 followers to over 1.6 million followers in a matter of days.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-08-02): US Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Harris pledged to find bipartisan agreement on the US-Mexico border at a rally in Georgia, seeking to blunt a line of attack from her rival Donald Trump and address one of her campaign’s biggest political liabilities. Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images [...] We know what Trump stands for, and what he would do as president. But what about Kamala Harris? What does she believe in? Voters must wonder. When she ran for president in 2019, she backed a ban on fracking; mandatory gun buybacks, i.e. gun confiscation; taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries for prison inmates; racial reparations; decriminalizing illegal immigration; defunding the police; eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement; "Medicare for All"; the Green New Deal; and allowing felons to vote. [...] The Trump campaign was wrong-footed by Joe Biden’s exit from the race. Now it is readying a tidal wave of negative advertising about Harris’s extremely unpopular and shifting positions. They will brand her as a lightweight and as inauthentic. The latter charge was also leveled against Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was true, it stuck and she lost. Kamala will suffer the same fate.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Kamala Harris’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ spot was taped before her presidential run [...] "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race," the conservative social media account wrote in a post that shared a video of a child dancing with adults on a stage. [...] We rate the claim Harris "launched" her campaign on "RuPaul’s Drag Race" False.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Politics Elections Kamala Harris Makes Surprise Visit to RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Finale to Remind Viewers 'Your Vote Is Your Power' The cameo was filmed prior to the vice president launching her own presidential campaign after incumbent Joe Biden dropped out By Lawrence Yee Lawrence Yee Lawrence Yee joined PEOPLE in December 2023 as the Senior News Editor, Nights. His work has previously appeared on The Wrap, Variety and Yahoo. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 25, 2024 01:00PM EDT Close Kamala Harris shares an important election message in the season 9 finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars. The vice president, who this week launched her own presidential campaign to be the Democratic nominee when President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 election, will kick off the anticipated climax to the hit Paramount+ show's season with a voting registration reminder for viewers. In the clip — which dropped on Thursday, July 25 ahead of the finale's airing on Friday, July 26 — Harris, 59, is joined by a handful of familiar faces in the Drag Race community, including judge Michelle Visage, choreographer Jamal Sims, and former guest judges Lance Bass, Leslie Jones and Cheyenne Jackson.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Kamala Harris will appear on the season nine finale of "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars" advocating for voting. [...] Taped a few weeks before Harris announced her bid for the presidency, Harris joined judge Michelle Visage, Emmy-nominated choreographer Jamal Sims, Lance Bass, Leslie Jones, and Cheyenne Jackson and made her plea, encouraging Americans to register to vote. She has long been an advocate for human and civil rights, and a champion for marriage equality. Last month, Harris hosted a Pride month reception in partnership with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. "Drag Race" season 16 winner Nymhpia Wind, "All Stars" queens Vanessa Vanjie Mateo and Plastique Tiara, and Billy Porter were among the guests. On Wednesday night, the Human Rights Campaign backed Harris’ White House bid. They said, "In the Senate and as Vice President, Kamala Harris has been a champion for the Equality Act, which would ensure comprehensive non-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ+ community, and the Respect for Marriage Act, which secured federal marriage protections."
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Vice President Kamala Harris shows up at the top of the Paramount+ series season ender to urge viewers to vote in the November election. [...] The pitch was filmed last month before the Vice President moved into the Dems’ pole position with President Joe Biden deciding on July 21 to drop out of the 2024 race and throw his support behind Harris. [...] As SF DA, Harris personally married Bradley Witherspoon and Raymond Cobane in 2004, long before the Supreme Court recognized marriage equality. In recognition of that and her continued support for the LGBTQ+ community, the California-born VP’s less than a week old POTUS bid received the endorsement on July 24 of over 1,1000 leading members of said community. "Vice President Kamala Harris is a galvanizing trailblazer and has been a champion for LGBTQ+ equality for decades," Colman Domingo, George Takei, Sophia Bush, Ashlyn Harris, Wilson Cruz, Brian Michael Smith and many others declared in the letter.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Days after launching her White House campaign, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president’s ceremonial office. Netanyahu also met with President Joe Biden earlier in the day. [...] A major Democratic political action committee has launched its first digital ad effort on behalf of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. [...] Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is rolling out its first video — and it has a pop culture flair.
Claim: "Kamala just launched her presidential campaign on RuPaul's Drag Race." (Social media posts, 2024-07-25)
Evidence (2024-07-26): The video, which according to Variety magazine was taped a few weeks before she announced her presidential campaign, comes as Harris is set to appear on the season nine finale of "RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars." [...] In its first campaign ad, Kamala Harris’ campaign suggests it wants America to be on a first-name basis with the vice president, despite some pro-Harris voices insisting in recent days that it is rude or undignified to refer to her by anything other than her title or last name. [...] Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris have been in close touch since she announced her presidential candidacy Sunday, having multiple conversations this week as she kicks off her campaign, according to four people familiar with their discussions.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-08): At the earliest encounters between police and Black Lives Matter protesters in D.C., officers were ready with full riot gear, shields and chemical agents. Capitol Police in regular uniforms were the first line of defense when Trump supporters marched on the Capitol. Federal officials were quick to see fires and looting in other cities as signs of pending violence, but ignored evidence of planned attacks by Trump supporters.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-08): "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently from the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," he said. [...] The Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC had been faced with rows of masked National Guard troops at the Lincoln Memorial in June, as Trump promised to crack down on what he called lawlessness by "hoodlums" and "thugs". [...] The DC Police Department said on Thursday it had arrested 68 people in connection with the Capitol unrest. In comparison, nearly 300 were arrested there the evening police cleared Black Lives Matter protesters from near the White House.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-08): Many people saw in the images and videos that poured out of the Capitol more than a disturbing breach of security by people who believe Trump's baseless claims of election fraud. They said they saw white privilege and double standards and questioned whether the police response would have been the same had the rioters been Black or brown people or their allies. "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday that they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the mob that stormed the Capitol," Biden said Thursday. "We all know that's true — and it's unacceptable." [...] By contrast, police used pepper spray, tear gas and what appeared to be rubber bullets against people protesting unprovoked police violence against African Americans near the White House in May. In one encounter, police with support from the National Guard stormed into a peaceful protest outside the White House so Trump could walk across the street, where the protesters had been assembled, to pose for photos holding a Bible in front of a church.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-11): Many Black Lives Matter activists are furious that the law enforcement response to the breach of the U.S. Capitol appeared light compared to aggressive tactics they've endured at the hands of police. [...] Racial justice activists watched in outrage as pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol. They're angry that the response stood in contrast - in stark contrast to the aggressive tactics they have endured. NPR's Juana Summers reports. [...] JOE BIDEN: No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn't have been - they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that's true, and it is unacceptable - totally unacceptable.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-08-20): Black Lives Matter protesters often clashed with federal law enforcement in cities like New York, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, when mandatory curfews went into effect at night. The protesters continued to rally once the sun set, which was in violation of the curfew. When the protesters refused to leave, police sometimes used pepper spray and physical force to disperse the crowds. Many of the conflicts between Black Lives Matter protesters and law enforcement were captured on cell phone video and on live television. "Historically, Black protestors have more often than not been met with governmental oppression and accompanying police violence as a result of our unwillingness to accept the systemic disregard for and mistreatment of Black lives," Dr. Amara Enyia, policy and research coordinator for The Movement for Black Lives, said in a news release.
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-09): To Black activists, civil rights advocates and many Democrats — including President-elect Joe Biden — the police response reflected law enforcement’s long history of giving white people passes for behavior that would result in beatings or death if done by people of color. Some pointed to the brutal treatment of many Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across the country after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — including the forced removal of peaceful protesters near the White House to make way for a Trump photo-op — and the more measured response to groups of white people who protested Covid-19 lockdown orders. Revelations that Wednesday’s rioters included military veterans and police officers have exacerbated feelings of disparate treatment. [...] That racism doesn’t just affect the police response to protests; it also poisons police planning for the events, Williams said. Williams was not involved in the response to Wednesday’s riot. But, based on her experience in helping law enforcement plan for previous protests in the Capitol, Williams said police gather a lot of information in advance and assess the risk of violence, and Black protesters are typically seen as more of a risk than white protesters. "If that had been a minority, Black crowd, they would still be putting toe tags on individuals today," Williams said of the Capitol rioters. "We have to acknowledge that there’s a difference."
Claim: Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. (Sherrod Brown, 2021-01-08)
Evidence (2021-01-08): Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, last summer found themselves facing a massive show of force: military helicopters hovering over the city, National Guard troops patrolling the streets and tear gas filling the air. [...] DC police arrested more than five times as many people at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer than they did during the day of insurrection at the Capitol, according to a CNN analysis of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) data. And many of those arrested amid this week’s unrest were detained on less serious charges. [...] President-elect Joe Biden focused on the racial disparities in a speech Thursday, saying "no one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol."