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There is no evidence to support the claim that a new book by Kamala Harris was pulled in 2025 for being 30% plagiarized. The claim likely refers to allegations about her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer, co-authored with Joan O’C. Hamilton. In October 2024, conservative activist Christopher Rufo, citing Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber, alleged that the book contained about 500 words (roughly 0.75% of the 65,000-word book) copied from sources like Wikipedia, a John Jay College press release, and an Associated Press article without proper attribution. Experts, including Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, described these as minor citation issues due to sloppy writing, not malicious intent, and not amounting to 30% plagiarism. The Harris campaign dismissed the claims as politically motivated, noting the book’s extensive use of footnotes and endnotes. No new book by Harris has been released or pulled in 2025.