Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly sent 70,000 Arizona State University (ASU) students unsolicited texts over the weekend asking them to register to vote and vote for her. While the students’ contact information is technically “a matter of public record,” ASU would not confirm to The Federalist whether it willingly gave Harris’ campaign the data.
A text purportedly sent by the Harris campaign, received by an ASU student and posted to X by the ASU College Republicans reads, in part:
🚨Election Interference: 70,000 Arizona State students received a text from the Kamala Harris campaign which is data from the Arizona state database and should be confidential!
Everyone should demand answers from @ASU about how this has happened. @AZGOP pic.twitter.com/x0BTwfjykd
— College Republicans at ASU (@asu_gop) October 6, 2024
“Hi Sun Devils, it’s Kamala Harris. I wanted to remind you that the deadline to register to vote in Arizona is Monday, October 7. Thanks to record turnout among college students in 2020, I am Vice President of the United States Today.”
“Tim Walz and I are the underdogs in this election, but student voters could make the difference. We need your support to win. As an Arizona State University student, you can register and vote in Arizona,” the text reads. “Your vote is your voice and your power. You must not let anybody take your power from you.”
ASU first told The Federalist that “the contact information of enrolled students (including their cell phone numbers) is a matter of
