Joe Biden Calls Republican Attacks On Voting Rights 'Sick'
Source: huff post
03/25/2021 03:35 pm ET
The president condemned GOP lawmakers at the state level who are attempting to restrict voting access, calling the efforts “un-American.”
President Joe Biden condemned Republican lawmakers’ attempts to restrict access to voting, calling such efforts “un-American” and “sick.”
“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick, it’s sick,” Biden said Thursday, referring to states pushing to pass voting rights restrictions. .............................
................The president said his priority will be “figuring out how to pass” H.R. 1, the sweeping voting rights bill passed by the House earlier this month. It would essentially override Republicans’ efforts with measures that expand access to the vote, including mandating that states have no-excuse absentee voting and implementing same-day registration.
“I’m convinced we’re going to be able to stop this, because it’s the most pernicious thing,” Biden said. He added that Republicans’ current restriction effort “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” referencing racist laws that attacked civil rights through the middle of the 20th century.
Biden insisted that he would “do everything in my power” to prevent voting restrictions from “becoming the law.” However, when reporters pressed him on whether he would do anything beyond helping to pass legislation, he did not provide a clear answer, saying: “Yes, but I’m not gonna lay out a strategy in front of the whole world and you now.”
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Georgia Gov Kemp immediately signing his voter suppression bill puts pressure on the Senate to pass the voting rights bill.
It was like a slap in the face IMHO.
Maddow did a good segment on this story tonight. She put Georgia in broader context--it is NOT just Georgia but Republicans across the US in many states. This is just the beginning of states that will actually pass MORE voter suppression laws
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