rights. this isn t about politics. it s about democracy. is that going to push biden? he s got a lot of influence. it doesn t appear to be moving president biden so far, stephanie. and clyburn and the texas democratic legislators and a number of progressives have called on president biden to make a case for, if not fully abolishing the filibuster, then creating a carveout so the senate can pass voting rights, the same way they have a carveout to address budget issues. but president biden did not make that case in his speech yesterday. instead, he gave an impassioned kind of plea for the importance of federal voting rights. he said it s about democracy. he said new legislation at the federal level is necessary to prevent these republican-led states like texas and georgia from passing restrictive laws. let s have a listen to what the white house spokesperson said about the filibuster. when it comes to the
but, boy, i didn t want to go along with all the excess stuff. so, yeah, they re going to complain about the infrastructure, the human infrastructure bill, to use that term, if we want to use it. but it s not necessarily a bad thing for them in biden either, a, tries to pass it and can t, or, b, does pass it, it gives them an issue going into the midterms. summer vacation not on the agenda. peter, john, thank you. sahil stay with me. we have to talk about the standoff over voting rights in texas. state democrats holed up in dc for a second straight day as lawmakers down in austin are preparing to meet again without those democrats. priscilla thompson is in austin, texas. we have president and ceo of the group vote latino still with us. texas house lawmakers do not have enough for a quorum. that is the whole point of the democrats being in dc. what are they doing in austin?
it is dead last. and for the very first time in the last two elections, you ve seen young people coming out in record numbers, african-american, white, latino and asian, voting. and if you saw the first piece of legislation that they passed that was restrictive in this session, it was basically against young voters. so you have a challenge. you re right now expecting, just when you look at the latino front, you re expecting a quarter of a million more young latinos waiting in the wings about to turn 18 years old in time for the midterm election next year and the republicans simply don t like it. what we are seeing right now is that democrats aren t fleeing texas. they re basically sounding the alarm that the restrictive laws you see in texas are happening in georgia, they re happening in arizona, they re happening in north carolina, all places where there are young people of color. texas passed a certified fair
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