are. it passed the house. the president said he will sign them. we have 50 democratic senators who are in favor of the two bills, which would do a lot. clearly the filibuster is a problem. that s the barrier, so this is a moment of choice and a moment of division. in the life of all democrats, the there is a decision, this week. steven, on the anniversary of january 6th, president biden said you cannot only love your country when you win. can democracy function if one side is willing to play by the rules? look, i am afraid that we have passed the point of no return. i don t think we have passed the point of no return. american democracy has a no, ma am number of things going for it as well. you re right. it s very hard to sustain
and here on this monday it is literally five weeks until the georgia legislature, the arizona legislature, and so many other state legislators come back into session and they have plans to do more voter fraud conspiracy legislation around fraud and kind of bad maga faction ideas. congress needs to act. this is not a partisan issue. this is about our democracy. we need the freedom to vote act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act passed by this congress as soon as possible. six weeks from today more state go seven weeks, we are about a month out from these legislatures reconvening and still have not had congressional action. voters demand their democracy function. we have not seen the end of them trying to rig the game, lawrence. yes, you are correct. all of these bad bills passed and they ll come back and pass more. so we ll keep fighting those bills. this is a clarion call. congress must act. we must have a functioning
faction ideas. this is not about that issue, we need the freedom to vote act, we need this passed by the congress as soon as possible. in six weeks, from today. more states are reconvening and we still have not had congressional action. voters, they demand their democracy function. so we are not going to let them break the game. yes, you are correct, all these bills are passing, and they re going to come back and pass more. so we are going to keep fighting those bills. but this is clear, congress must act. we must have a functioning democracy. and to your question on campaign strategy, we, from a campaign perspective, i have to assume no help is coming. they will continue to advocate. and that we will have to assume that we are going to have the tools that we have unknown new tools for voters who are going to be here. if that s the case, we are going to go out there make our case. we are going to put together this coalition. we are going to win as strongly as we can, and we are going t
manager says she still suffers from panic attacks from the incident and she may stop working elections altogether. again, that reporting today from linda so at reuters. i mean, this is the stuff of nightmares. right? i mean, i like mayor for election officials and poor workers. a nightmare for democracy. these are the people who make democracy function. right? these are the people who check you in when you show up to vote and make sure that if you have any problem, you have somebody to ask for help. and make sure you get to the right precinct. right? anytime you ve ever showed up to vote in person, is usually elderly folks, a church lady and staff who do this sort of thing. those are the people who are now being the now the subject of death threats and conspiracy theories. by trump supporters trying to intimidate them out of doing their jobs. trying to blame times on them that they have absolutely nothing to do with. you cannot have a functioning democracy if running elections or sta
elections, altogether. again, that reporting today from linda sow at at reuters. i mean, this is the stuff of nightmares, right? nightmare for election officials and poll workers, a nightmare for democracy. and these are the people who make democracy function. right? these are the people, who like check you in when you show up to vote and make sure that if you have any problem, you have somebody to ask for help and make sure you get to the right precinct, right? anytime you every show up to vote in person, it s usually elderly folks, kind of church ladies and stuff who do this sort of thing. those are the people, who are now being are now the subject of death threats and conspiracy theories. by trump supporters. trying to intimidate them out of doing their jobs. trying to blame things on them, that they have absolutely nothing to do with. you can t not have a functioning democracy, if running elections or staffing the polling sites means taking your life into your own hands. and it