Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris cited a book of the Bible that does not exist in a rare “off-script” moment on Wednesday. “You know, there’s a time for patience, and there’s a time for impatience. That’s not in Ecclesiastics,” she said in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adding: “I just went off-script for a minute.”
Harris may have been referring to the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, which teaches, ‘To everything, there is a season,” including “a time to weep, and a time to laugh,” and “a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
The Vice President of mixed Indian and Jamaican heritage claims that, as a child, she attended both a Hindu temple, where she learned “that all faiths teach us to pursue justice,” and a black Baptist church, where she sang in the choir.
Many elements of the 59-year-old’s account of her background have been called into question. For instance, claims that her Indian grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, was one of the country’s “original independence fighters” are contradicted by the fact he worked for the British imperial government until decolonization. Claims she worked for McDonald’s in her youth also lack evidence.
Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is also known to misrepresent his past, falsely claiming he carried weapons “in war” as a National Guardsman despite never deploying to a combat zone and lying about an arrest for driving while intoxicated.
It’s “Ecclesiastes,” Kamala — not “Ecclesiastics.”
(This is why she never goes off script) pic.twitter.com/caByVZopmz
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 25, 2024
