J.D. Vance Attacks Kamala Harris After She Speaks About the Impact of Voter ID Laws on Rural Communities

J.D. Vance, the writer of Hillbilly Elegy and a caller Republican Senate candidate, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris aft she spoke retired against elector recognition laws.

Harris had said that elector recognition laws would wounded radical successful agrarian areas.

“I don’t deliberation that we should underestimate what that could mean, because, successful immoderate people’s mind, that means, well, you’re going to person to Xerox oregon photocopy your ID to nonstop it successful to beryllium that you are who you are,” she said Friday during an interrogation with BET-TV. “There are a full batch of people, particularly radical who unrecorded successful agrarian communities, who don’t — there’s nary Kinko’s, there’s nary Office Max adjacent them.”

Vance responded to the vice president’s assertion earlier this greeting during an interrogation with “Fox and Friends.”

“We person each kinds of brainsick things successful tiny towns successful the authorities of Ohio and crossed the country. We’ve got electricity, we’ve got moving water, we adjacent person soap. And it’s astonishing that the vice president of the United States thinks that radical can’t marque photocopies successful agrarian communities,” helium said. “I mean, it’s similar she thinks that if you spell to a tiny municipality successful this country, you’ve got the tractor proviso store, you’ve got the guys with the dueling banjos and there’s thing other there. And of course, that’s ridiculous. And anybody who lives successful these communities oregon spent clip successful them knows that.”

“I deliberation that Kamala Harris, similar a batch of folks who travel from our elite class, they person this stereotype of small-town America that it’s each backwards, that radical don’t person the basal things that they need. But look, if you speech to people, you speech to Ohioans oregon you conscionable work a poll, you find retired that agrarian Americans are really powerfully successful favour of elector I.D.,” helium added. “So I deliberation the Kamala Harrises of the satellite should permission their condescension to their staffers and really perceive to what their constituents are saying, due to the fact that those radical are saying we really privation elector ID, we privation harmless and unafraid elections, fto america fig retired however to execute that.”

After VP Harris claims agrarian Americans can’t entree photocopiers for elector registration, @JDVance1 pushes backmost that they’re the voters who are chiefly successful favour of elector ID. pic.twitter.com/venJDnjZzX

— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) July 12, 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union opposes elector recognition authorities .

“Voter ID laws deprive galore voters of their close to vote, trim participation, and basal successful nonstop absorption to our country’s inclination of including much Americans successful the antiauthoritarian process. Many Americans bash not person 1 of the forms of recognition states acceptable for voting,” the enactment notes successful a information sheet. “These voters are disproportionately low-income, radical and taste minorities, the elderly, and radical with disabilities.  Such voters much often person trouble obtaining ID, due to the fact that they cannot spend oregon cannot get the underlying documents that are a prerequisite to obtaining government-issued photograph ID card.”

The enactment notes that “11% of U.S. citizens – oregon much than 21 cardinal Americans – bash not person government-issued photograph identification” and that “Even if ID is offered for free, voters indispensable incur galore costs (such arsenic paying for commencement certificates) to use for a government-issued ID.” Additionally, these laws trim elector turnout and disproportionately interaction minorities.