Vice President Kamala Harris is facing criticism for an apparent inconsistency between her stance on voter ID laws and the requirements for attending her campaign events.
Harris, now the Democratic presidential candidate, has long opposed voter ID laws, arguing they disproportionately affect communities of color and rural residents.
Harris has been outspoken about voter ID laws in the past, claiming that such laws would disproportionately target minority and low-income voters.
Harris previously commented, “They [Republicans] 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.”
With Harris’ history of speaking out against ‘racist’ voter ID laws, it should be surprising that her own rally required registered attendees to show a matching ID for entry.
The Harris-Walz campaign emailed attendees for her most recent rally in Arizona to specify that a “matching government-issued photo ID” would be necessary for admission.
Conservatives are scrutinizing Harris’s campaign’s decision to require rally attendees to present a legitimate form of identification to enter. In her four years as Vice President of the United States, she has not expressed the same level of concern for those coming across the southern border.
The Harris campaign has not yet publicly addressed the criticism or explained the rationale behind requiring ID for campaign events while opposing similar requirements for voting or border entry.
