(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday he accepts that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president, rejecting a false and racist conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump had promoted. Sure, said Meadows, when asked on CNN's State of the Union whether he acknowledges the fact that she meets the constitutional requirements to be president or vice president. The Constitution requires a vice president to meet the eligibility requirements to be president. Trump in past years indulged in the false conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was born abroad. Jason Miller, a Trump campaign adviser, said Sunday on ABC's This Week that the campaign would not be promoting the conspiracy theory.

She faced questions familiar to women in politics, particularly women of color, about her ambition. Harris faced both the scrutiny of her personal life and the resistance to her rise as she raced past rivals from more well-connected families. Years later, when she ran for California attorney general and needed support beyond her liberal home base, Harris tempered her stance on capital punishment. She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as Black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud Black women," Harris wrote of her mother. At Howard, Harris joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nations oldest sorority for Black women.