Vice President Harris was mocked on-line for requiring marketing campaign rallygoers to current a government-issued ID upon entry, regardless of the Democratic presidential nominee opposing voter ID legal guidelines.
Forward of Harris’ rally alongside vice presidential working mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Arizona on Friday, her marketing campaign despatched out an e mail advising that solely confirmed RSVPs shall be admitted.
The e-mail mentioned these on the RSVP listing should current an identical government-issued photograph ID with the intention to be admitted to the venue, KTAR reported.
The precise web site of the Phoenix-area marketing campaign occasion, first introduced on July 30, was not revealed till Thursday. The e-mail specified the occasion would happen at Desert Diamond Enviornment, situated 15 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, with attendees being admitted Friday between 1:30 p.m. and three:30 p.m., in line with KTAR. The marketing campaign reportedly mentioned the Arizona Democratic Social gathering would ship out “non-transferrable invitations” by e mail on Thursday afternoon to attend Friday’s occasion.
Vice President Kamala Harris walks out right into a packed rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday Aug. 9, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Publish through Getty Photos)
X customers started sharing screenshots of the e-mail and lambasted Harris for perceived hypocrisy.
“Voter ID is racist, but you can’t get into a Kamala rally without ID,” actor Kevin Sorbo wrote to his 2 million followers.
“So let me get this straight: Requiring ID to vote is racist… But requiring ID to attend a Kamala Harris ‘rally’ is NOT racist?” Nick Sortor wrote to his greater than 448,000 followers.
“You need photo ID to get into an invite-only Kamala Harris event, but not to vote?” one other consumer, Ian Haworth, echoed.
“Kamala Harris requires photo ID to enter a private campaign event. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to require photo ID to vote. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to require ID before crossing our border. Weird,” political commentator Gunther Eagleman additionally wrote on X.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for remark, however they didn’t instantly reply.
In 2021, Harris gave her first interview as vp on the subject of modifications to voting legal guidelines with Soledad O’Brien on BET.
“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean,” Harris mentioned about permitting voter ID legal guidelines. “Because in some people’s mind that means, well, you’re going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t – there’s no Kinko’s, there’s no Office Max near them. People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion close to Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
“Of course, people have to prove who they are. But not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are,” Harris added.
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Not lengthy after then-candidate Joe Biden named Kamala Harris his vice-presidential working mate in August 2020, Harris penned an op-ed in The Washington Publish on the a centesimal anniversary of the adoption of the nineteenth Modification, which gave ladies the constitutional proper to vote.
“That is, unless you were Black. Or Latina. Or Asian. Or Indigenous,” Harris wrote. “And when the 19th Amendment was ratified at last, Black women were again left behind: Poll taxes, literacy tests and other Jim Crow voter suppression tactics effectively prohibited most people of color from voting.”
Supporters cheer throughout a marketing campaign occasion with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, outdoors Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
The vice presidential candidate on the time then tried to make a comparability to fashionable instances.
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Harris accused Republicans of “once again doing everything in their power to suppress and attack the voting rights of people of color.”
“They are deploying suppressive voter ID laws, racial gerrymandering, voter roll purges, precinct closures and reduced early-voting days – all of which have been laser-targeted toward communities of color since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013,” she wrote.
