Meghan Markle has been cold-calling voters ahead of the election in an effort to boost voter turnout, feminist activist Gloria Steinem revealed.
“The first thing we did and why she came to see me, was we sat at the dining room table here, where I am right now, and cold-called voters. And said, ‘Hello, I’m Meg,’ and, ‘Hello, I’m Gloria,’ and, ‘Are you going to vote?’” Steinem told Access Hollywood.
Steinem said that Markle “came home to vote” in this year’s election and described the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry as “such an inspiration.”
Markle has become more politically active after she moved to California with her husband and their 1-year-old son, Archie.
In August, she participated in an event with When All Women Vote, an organization co-founded by Michelle Obama. At the event, she told viewers that if they “aren’t part of the solution, we’re part of the problem. If you’re complacent, you’re complicit.”
Broadcaster Piers Morgan called for her to be stripped of her title as Duchess of Sussex, arguing that “they can’t remain as royals & spout off about foreign elections in such a brazenly partisan way.”
Markle participated in a discussion with Steinem this summer, saying Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate made her “so excited.”
“You know, for me, being biracial, growing up, whether it was a doll or a person in office, you need to see someone who looks like you in some capacity,’’ Markle told Steinem during the discussion for MAKERS Women.
Markle has been a frequent critic of President Trump, calling him “divisive” and “misogynistic” in a 2016 interview.
“Of course, Trump is divisive — think about female voters alone. I think it was in 2012, the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points. That’s a huge number, and as misogynistic as Trump is, and so vocal about it, that’s a huge chunk of it,” she said. “You’re not just voting for a woman if it’s Hillary [Clinton]. Yes, you’re voting because she’s a woman, but certainly, because Trump has made it easy to see that you don’t really want that kind of world that he’s painting.”
Members of the British royal family do not vote in elections, however, Markle, who did not renounce her American citizenship after her marriage to Prince Harry, said that she will vote in the 2020 United States election.
