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Photo of reality show stars doesn’t feature Vice President Kamala Harris, despite online claims
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- A photo of three women doesn’t show Vice President Kamala Harris; it’s of three reality show stars in 1998.
There are plenty of old photographs floating around the internet of Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
An image recently shared on social media isn’t one of them.
"Kamala didn’t look bad in the 90s though," a Sept. 2 Threads post said, sharing an image of three women posing for the camera.
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Claudia Jordan, a TV and radio host and a former cast member on Bravo’s "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," shared it in July 2020 on Instagram.
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"Guess who?" Jordan wrote in the caption. "The late 90’s. #1998"
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Jordan tagged Mimi Faust and Karlie Redd, who both starred on the reality show "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta."
The women don’t resemble Harris, who in 1998 started working at the San Francisco district attorney’s office as managing attorney of its career criminal unit.
We rate claims this photo shows Harris False.
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Threads post, Sept. 2, 2024
Claudia Jordan Instagram post, July 19, 2020
California Office of the Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, 32nd Attorney General, visited Sept. 4, 2024
Bravo, Claudia Jordan, visited Sept. 4, 2024
CNN, Meena Harris: Kamala Harris was raised to believe if you see injustice, do something, Aug. 22, 2020
People, Vice President Kamala Harris' Career in Photos, July 23, 2024
South China Morning Post, Who is Kamala Harris’ much older ex, former mayor Willie Brown – and did they have an affair? The vice-president was 29 when she met a then 60-year-old Brown, who also acted in The Princess Diaries, July 30, 2024
BBC, Kamala Harris and a 1986 snapshot of that Howard generation, Jan. 19, 2021
The Washington Post, Why Kamala Harris chose Howard University — and what she did on weekends there, Aug. 11, 2020
MSNBC, College pics of Kamala Harris help highlight her Black Greek history, Aug. 5, 2024
WTOP News, Kamala Harris’ sorority sisters reflect on their sisterhood and time at Howard U, Nov. 8, 2020
Paramount+, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, 2012
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