Fact Check: Kamala Harris Made Up a Fake Quote From Abe Lincoln at the Debate – IOTW Report

Fact Check: Kamala Harris Made Up a Fake Quote From Abe Lincoln at the Debate

DanBongino:

Kamala Harris did a lot of lying during the VP debate last night. She lied about her support for fracking, about the Green New Deal, and of course, about Donald Trump. She also made up a particularly bizarre lie about Abe Lincoln as part of an effort to justify not filling a seat on the Supreme Court. Her argument was that Trump shouldn’t fill Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Supreme Court Seat because when Abe Lincoln was faced with a similar situation, he didn’t do it.

She claimed:

In 1864 — one of the, I think political heroes certainly of the President, I assume of you also, Mr. Vice President, is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was up for re-election, and it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge, not only of the White House, but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, “It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States. And then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.” And so Joe and I are very clear: the American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime.

Of course, Abraham Lincoln didn’t actually say anything even close to that. How would we know that for sure? Because as Dan McLaughlin at National Review noted, Abe Lincoln filled the seat.

14 Comments on Fact Check: Kamala Harris Made Up a Fake Quote From Abe Lincoln at the Debate

  1. They don’t give a sh*t about the Presidency….It’s a sleight of Hand moment,

    They’re going to stack the Senate and House through Mass Voter Fraud

    ..Making Trump’s second Term somewhat meaningless…. We’ll be cheering the

    wrong Election News on Wednesday Morning.

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  2. Kamala lied and the broadcast media, which the majority of people listen to for their “news” didn’t do a fact check? I am appalled, shocked, bewildered /sarc

    On a semi-unrelated note, how is it that a prior staffer to a leftie official was actually more neutral than Chrissy Wallace? Nevermind. I was one of those that thought Mr. Wallace would put on a semblance of neutrality. I was wrong, and I apologize. No non-apology, no deflecting, I was wrong.

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  3. When I heard her say that Lincoln “quote”, I thought no one born before 1960 would talk like that.

    The full quote was “It’s not the right thing to do. Now, bring me a smoothie. I’m gonna take the old lady to a play tonight.”

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  4. For goodness sake! If you all are worried about lies, than Trump is a lying racist, that rapes women and and is Putins puppet! I take an incorrect fact from Harris any day over a wannabe authoritarian that will bring this country to a civil war because of people like you!

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