Viral video shows women barred from Harris event

A video showing two women being blocked from entering a campaign event with Vice President Kamala Harris in Las Vegas on Saturday has gone viral on X.

The video, which was posted Tuesday morning by an X account named Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation, was filmed by a woman not visible to the camera. The video shows another woman, who appears momentarily and is wearing a headscarf.

Both women can be heard in the video asking staff from both the state and county Democratic Party organizations why they had been singled out and were not being allowed to enter the event. When the staff didn’t respond to their questions, the women called staff “racist” and “Islamophobic.”

“They’re disinviting us because we have hijabs on our heads,” the woman filming tells another attendee walking by.

An aide with the Biden Harris campaign said the individuals were among a group of people that weren’t allowed to attend the event because they had previously disrupted and shut down events with Democratic elected officials.

“As a policy, the campaign will disinvite individuals known to have disrupted prior events,” the aide said in a statement.

Earlier this month, pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted an event at which Sen. Jacky Rosen was speaking. One of those individuals were blocked from attending Saturday’s event, according to the aide.

The post containing the video – recorded in front of IBEW Local 357 union hall on North Lamb Boulevard – had been viewed over a million times and liked over 8,000 times as of Tuesday evening. A series of posts by the group identify the women in the video as Muslim and claim they had RSVPed for the event and had been given wristbands after checking in.

In a statement posted to X Tuesday evening, Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation accused the Biden Harris campaign of turning away the two women – who they said did not attend the event together – because they were wearing hijabs.

“The Democratic Party, with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the helm, is explicitly turning away Muslim constituents from attending campaign events,” the statement reads.

Other NPL members that were not wearing hijabs were allowed to enter the event, the group said.

The release also included a statement allegedly from one of the women in the video. Only identified as “A,” the woman pushed back on the Biden Harris campaign’s claim that she was turned away because she had disrupted events in the past.

“I have never disrupted a political event in my life and any insinuation of me doing so is categorically inaccurate,” she said in a statement. “With what happened, I know I will not be voting for Democrats this election.”

The Council on American Islamic Relations called on Harris to respond to the video.

“The American people deserve to know whether these women were profiled and barred from an event featuring Vice President Harris because they were visibly Muslim,” CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw said in a statement Tuesday. “We encourage Vice President Harris to take appropriate action to address this apparent incident of profiling.”

The Nevada State Democratic Party and Clark County Democratic Party Chair Shelby Wiltz did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening.

Contact Taylor R. Avery at TAvery@reviewjournal.com. Follow @travery98 on X.