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“Says Kamala Harris “advocated for restoring voting rights for the Boston bomber.”
Nancy Mace 2020 Republican congressional candidate from South Carolina. Twitter. Claim dated 11 Aug 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False

What PolitiFact found

Harris has not said she would advocate for giving the Boston Marathon bomber the right to vote, only that she is open to it. Asked if prisoners such as the bomber should vote, she said there should be a conversation.

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In short

Nancy Mace (2020 Republican congressional candidate from South Carolina) made this claim around 11 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 August 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.

Nancy Mace has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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