small fraction of americans think is important whatsoever. that is a non-solution looking for a problem. bill, show me one voter who wants to vote that had a problem voting. we re at near record voter turnout. democrats want one-party control. they can t talk about their record because their record is one of miserable failure from democrat governors and open borders to catch and release. this is miserable. bill: the turnout was up higher than we ve seen in 120 years. the exchange of the reporter and the president answering it. i know that you dispute the characterization that you called folks who would oppose those voting bills as being bull connor or george wallace. but you said they would be sort of in the same camp. president biden: i didn t say that. look what i said. go back and read what i said and tell me if you think i called anyone who voted on the
anything against my the good senator from south carolina. but for him to say because he s in the senate, that therefore the voting rights act is not necessary, is the most ludicrous thing i could hear out of his mouth. who told him that black people voted for him in first place? who told him that the reason he s there is because others were not suppressed from being able to vote? but in fact, the tim scott problem is america s problem right now, right? because if i, in new york or philadelphia, do not have a problem voting, do not have a problem registering to vote, do not have a problem standing in a line that is not very long, do not face voter intimidation, i may not think democracy itself is at risk. and this teams to be a problem writ large. three-quarters of the country thinks the voting rights thing is an abstraction, it is not a real threat. well, i in that respect i recall in the 1960s during the
how do we convince people who are not black, who are not poor or women or may not need an abortion who do not ever have a problem voting that our democracy is incomplete. our union is less perfect until we all put our backs into fixing all of this? until everybody has the voice they have earned under the constitution of the united states. i think a couple things point in the direction that people understand it. the polling shows overwhelming support for codifying roe and keeping it as law of the land. what needs to happen is the energy and the frustration that people are experiencing needs to be matched by energy and action from congress, because the last thing that democrats need going into the midterms is to say hey, we saw the gop come for your voting rights. we saw the gop come for our access to abortion and the gop come for all of your rights. and we didn t do anything. right? so democrats will continue to be
people most won reelection. there has to be reckoning into saying the 22 election has to be the beginning of it. if you get people like rand paul to have all the power you will turn out the lights on this country. not only did donald trump come close to winning election, he now is coming close to stealing an election. one of the discussions you and i have had in the past and he is, everybody has to put their back into this. voting rights now completely intersect with election fraud but not in the way that republicans want you to think about it in the way that donald trump says that the justice department sent letters to the georgia republicans of the governors to overturn the election in favor of donald trump. that s the only election fraud we have got here so folks who are not affected by voting restrictions like me, because i ve never had a problem voting here now don t have a and i vote easily. everybody has got to get their back into fixing this problem. rides you remember the
or republican but the protection of the very country. and maybe in some ways the world. you need to be engaged now and demand in the filibuster, pass the for the people act, owl provisions of it pass the voting rights act, restoration, pass the $15 minimum wage. and also protect immigrants and daca. we could do this tomorrow. we could do this on monday or tuesday. it doesn t we don t have to keep waiting on this and we shouldn t wait and must demand what do you need the people watching you right now to do people like me who have never had a problem voting, people like me who can get problems sorted out people like me who don t think it targeted me what do we have to do right now to join the fight if you can t get to d.c. you need to flood the senate offices with calls, demanding that they act on the things i just named. end that filibuster now. and don t accept the lie of the