Vice Plivent Harris was mocked online for requiring campaign rassociategoers to current a regulatement-rehired ID upon entry, despite the Democratic plivential nominee opposing voter ID laws.
Ahead of Harris’ rassociate alengthyside vice plivential running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in Arizona on Friday, her campaign sent out an email advising that only validateed RSVPs will be acunderstandledgeted.
The email said those on the RSVP enumerate must current a suiting regulatement-rehired pboilingo ID in order to be acunderstandledgeted to the venue, KTAR increateed.
The exact site of the Phoenix-area campaign event, first declared on July 30, was not discomited until Thursday. The email specified the event would get place at Desert Diamond Arena, findd 15 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, with take partees being acunderstandledgeted Friday between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., according to KTAR. The campaign increateedly said the Arizona Democratic Party would send out “non-transferrable invitations” by email on Thursday afternoon to take part Friday’s event.
Vice Plivent Kamala Harris walks out into a packed rassociate in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday Aug. 9, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
X engagers began sharing screensboilings of the email and lambasted Harris for seed hypocrisy.
“Voter ID is racially prejudiced, but you can’t get into a Kamala rassociate without ID,” actor Kevin Sorbo wrote to his 2 million folshrinks.
“So let me get this straight: Requiring ID to vote is racially prejudiced… But requiring ID to take part a Kamala Harris ‘rassociate’ is NOT racially prejudiced?” Nick Sortor wrote to his more than 448,000 folshrinks.
“You necessitate pboilingo ID to get into an ask-only Kamala Harris event, but not to vote?” another engager, Ian Haworth, echoed.
“Kamala Harris demands pboilingo ID to go in a declareiveial campaign event. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to demand pboilingo ID to vote. Kamala Harris doesn’t want to demand ID before traverseing our border. Weird,” political commentator Gunther Eagleman also wrote on X.
Fox News Digital accomplished out to the Harris campaign for comment, but they did not promptly react.
In 2021, Harris gave her first interwatch as vice plivent on the topic of alters to voting laws with Soledad O’Brien on BET.
“I don’t leank that we should underapproximate what that could uncomardent,” Harris said about permiting voter ID laws. “Becaengage in some people’s mind that uncomardents, well, you’re going to have to Xerox or pboilingoduplicate your ID to send it in to show you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especiassociate people who inhabit in country communities, who don’t – there’s no Kinko’s, there’s no Office Max proximate 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 demandd of them to show who they are.”
Vice Plivent Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event proximate Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Of course, people have to show who they are. But not in a way that originates it almost impossible for them to show who they are,” Harris grasped.
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Not lengthy after then-truthfulate Joe Biden named Kamala Harris his vice-plivential running mate in August 2020, Harris penned an op-ed in The Washington Post on the 100th anniversary of the adselection of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the constitutional right to vote.
“That is, unless you were Balertage. Or Latina. Or Asian. Or Indigenous,” Harris wrote. “And when the 19th Amendment was ratified at last, Balertage women were aacquire left behind: Poll taxes, literacy tests and other Jim Crow voter suppression tactics effectively banden most people of color from voting.”
Supporters cheer during a campaign event with Vice Plivent Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, outside Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The vice plivential truthfulate at the time then tried to originate a comparison to up-to-date times.
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Harris accengaged Reaccessibleans of “once aacquire doing everyleang 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 pencourages, precinct clodeclareives and shrinkd punctual-voting days – all of which have been laser-focengaged toward communities of color since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013,” she wrote.
