Claim: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris failed the California bar exam on her first attempt, soon after she graduated law school in 1989. Rating: About this rating True Context Harris eventually succeeded in the bar exam and was admitted to the California bar in 1990, a year after she graduated law school. In late July 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic frontrunner for president, failed her bar exam. According to a 2016 New York Times profile of Harris about her Senate campaign, she did fail the bar exam on her first try. Harris described consoling a recent law graduate who did not make it either: "[Harris] failed the bar exam the first time she took it.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2024 16:18 UTC