Kamala Harris Reverses Earlier Support for Felons Voting from Prison

Less than 24 hours after Kamala Harris’ CNN town hall, she attempted to walk back her answer on “having a conversation” about convicted terrorists and sex offenders having the right to vote while in jail:

On the trail, she likes to tout her record as a “progressive prosecutor.” Yet this time, it was more politically expedient to use her record as a law and order prosecutor as justification for the flip flop.

Read the difference in Harris’ answers, less than 24 hours apart:

Kamala Harris, April 22nd: I agree that the right to vote is one of the very important components of citizenship. And it is something that people should not be stripped of needlessly, which is why I have been a long advocate of making people informally incarcerated are not denied the right to vote. In some states they’re permanently deprived of the right to vote. Policies that go back to Jim crow, policies that go back to the heart of policies that have been about disenfranchisement, policies that continue today and we need to take it seriously.

Kamala Harris, April 23rd: Right now we have a lot of work to do with the people in our country who have served their time and have been prohibited from voting. But, you know, do I think people who commit murder, people who are terrorists should be deprived of their rights? Yeah, I do. I’m a prosecutor. I believe that there has to be serious consequences for the most extreme types of crimes.

Harris backtracked after receiving criticism for dodging multiple questions during the event.