Christopher Rufo's claims of plagiarism regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s book, Smart on Crime, focus on five passages totaling around 500 words from a larger work.
In a review by The New York Times, it was noted that the questioned passages did not take ideas from another author, but were descriptions and statistical information.
Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism consultant, assessed Rufo's claims as relatively minor mistakes in the context of the entire work, arguing that they do not indicate intent to defraud.
Bailey emphasized that these citation errors represent a small fraction of the entire text and should not overshadow the overall content and purpose of Harris's work.
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