Vice President Kamala Harris said that the upcoming midterm elections in November will ultimately determine whether the “age-old sanctity” of the right to vote would be protected in the United States or whether “so-called extremist leaders around the country” would continue to restrict access to voting.
There are only 56 days to go until the massive elections. There is also a paper-thin Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate in Congress.
“Everything is on the line in these elections,” the Vice President said.
Harris made the comments while doing an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press. In the interview, she said the United States is facing a rising domestic extremism threat.
“I think it is very dangerous and I think it is very harmful, and it makes us weaker,” she said.
Harris pointed to the plethora of extreme election deniers, many endorsed by former president Donald Trump, who has embraced Trump’s lie that the 2020 election – won by Joe Biden – was “stolen” from him.
There are 11 people right now running for secretary of state, the keepers of the integrity of the voting system of their state, who are election deniers, Harris said.
She warned that this coupled with how people who hold some of the highest elected offices who refuse to condemn a violent insurrection that took place against the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan 6, 2021, is dangerous.
The midterms have been a tight race, and there have been massive battles playing out for who will take the Legislative branch this cycle. A lot of issues are at stake right now.
One of which is abortion. A growing number of Republicans are changing their positions on abortions since the fall of Roe v Wade as midterm elections approach in the US, signaling a softened shift from their previously staunch anti-abortion stances.
The moves come amid a ferocious backlash to the decision, which has revived Democrat hopes in the midterm elections and even had a solidly red state like Kansas vote in a referendum to keep certain abortion rights. With midterms now quickly approaching it is even more crucial.
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