Former Vice President Kamala Harris shared a video on social media Tuesday, urging voters to check their registration status in order to turn out Democratic voters in the midterm elections to make it “too big to rig.”
Harris has struggled to find her place since losing the 2024 election and has made voter mobilization her role in the 2026 elections, often appearing with Democratic candidates to encourage voter turnout. Some members of her party, however, have opposed the former vice president’s help in campaigning as her role in the Biden administration could be viewed as polarizing.
“I have two requests of you. No. 1, please check your voter registration status,” Harris said. “I know you’re pretty sure that you are registered, but you know they’ve been cheating out there. They’ve been purging voter rolls. So please check your voter registration status. And then No. 2, text everyone on your group chat and let them know I asked you to ask them to check their voter registration status.
“We gotta win,” she said. “There’s so much at stake, and we gotta be too big to rig. They’re gonna try and cheat. Let’s be too big to rig.”
Harris’s lexicon appears to mimic that of President Donald Trump, who coined the phrase “too big to rig” during the 2024 presidential election in which he defeated Harris. Trump has since continued using the mantra while in office, urging his base to turn out in such large numbers that opposing parties would be unable to alter the outcome.
Additionally, Trump has a long-standing history of accusing Democrats of cheating in elections and has not backed down from his claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged after losing to former President Joe Biden.
In pursuing an investigation into the 2020 election, the FBI seized thousands of 2020 election ballots from Fulton County, Georgia, during a January search warrant execution.
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Harris remains a front-runner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination but has kept a relatively low profile leading up to November. Key Democratic candidates have swatted away her support, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he would not pursue a presidential bid if Harris made the same decision.
Newsom, who is polled behind Harris among possible Democratic presidential nominees, said the two share too large a voter base.