nation. yet they certified a presidential election as secure and safe. their challenge and why they try to add these bills is because just if you if you calculate how many more latino youth will be eligible to vote next year, we re talking about a quarter of a million more young latino voters. that does not include african-american voters, and it does not include young asian american voters. so this is very much they re trying to prevent voter participation for the future because george greg abbott is going to be on that ballot next year and a few other congressional members that would rather not have a fair election. it s interesting you say that, too, because there are so many people that showed up for public testimony. it went late into the day yesterday, into the night. your group voter latino says that congress needs to step in and protect voting rights. we know, of course, the john lewis advancement voting rights act is still right now just kind of sitting in capitol hill
i will go further and say we need to pass hr-4, the restore the voting act. the john lewis act. i want you to look around the country including in texas where these republican control legislatures are trying to get these anti-voting bill passed and trying to get them passed before we can get hr-4 passed because they know these can stay the law indefinitely. while we re sitting around having the discussions about whether or not we re going to get rid of the filibuster or curtail it, mitch mcconnell doing everything he can to get rid of african-american voters, hispanic voters. he is doing everything to get rid of early voting centers. he is doing everything he can to make sure that our voices are not heard on capitol hill and state legislatures around the
he s lying, isn t he? nobody has ever said an election in which they won was riddled by fraud. i think what we are seeing based on the data and based on the research is we had a secure election. there were some blips. we re in a once in a century pandemic but americans of all backgrounds came together, election administrators worked hard and we pulled off a safe and secure election. something we can all be proud of. it cannot be the case that there s only two options in an election. either my person wins or it was fake. that cannot be where the american public is. we need to go back to restoring faith and confidence in our lixs and that means passing the john lewis advancement voting rights act and passing the for the people act. real fast, any last comment that you have. 15 seconds. it s disturbing in 2021 that as republicans are trying to pass these racist pieces of legislation they continue to use
just as fundamental as any of these investments i ve discussed is maybe the most fundamental. right to vote. this sacred right is under assault with incredible intensity as i ve never seen even though i got started as a public rights lawyer. an intensity and aggressiveness we have not seen in a long, long time. it s simply un-american. earlier this year the for the people act was passed. the senate will take it up later this month. i m going to fight like heck with every tool in my disposal for its passage. whilehonoring the victims of the tulsa race massacre, president biden announced that vice president harris will be leading the charge. this year alone, 48 state vs introduced 389 restrictive bill