Conservative activist Christopher Rufo surfaced allegations of plagiarism earlier this week. An expert says the claims are overblown.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign Tuesday rejected claims that she and a co-author had plagiarized a handful of passages in a 2009 book on fighting crime, arguing that the allegations amounted to a partisan attempt to weaponize a 15-year-old work.

Christopher Rufo posted a lengthy item on his X account on Tuesday in which he accused the Gray Lady of minimizing the extent of the scandal.

As Nov. 5 looms, Vice President Kamala Harris has a new problem: plagiarism. On Monday, activist Chris Rufo posted a thread to social media platform X in which he shared evidence from an investigation that Harris had plagiarized "at least a dozen sections" of her 2009 book,