there s two different media conversations going on, lib blals who want to faux liberals who want to focus on the congressional bill and what they view as restrictive state laws like the one in georgia and then you have conservative as we just heard accusing biden and democrats overall of playing the so-called race card. yes. and i happen to think the conservatives are correct on this, probably comes as no surprise. here s what i think is an accurate framing of the story is. 2020 saw the greatest changes in voting and the way we vote in really i don t know, decades, right. we made exceptions and we changed the rules because of a worldwide pandemic. we allowed massive mail-in balloting, absentee ballot, push balloting, mail-in drop boxes, we made it as easy as possible for someone to stay home and vote. republicans are saying the pandemic is over, we need to go back to quote, unquote normal, we need protections in place that ensure voter integrity such
will: now it s happening in texas. the reason why it s happening. worth pointing out, all of the voting measures texas is follow the path of georgia. the question is are the measures we put in place during a pandemic year, huge changes in how we voted, right? mail-in balloting some states push balloting. we don t have to request it. texas we saw, lawrence, you just read it, no, no, no. you have to request absentee plotting we are not going to push it out. question is if you rein back in emergency protocols are he engaging in voter suppression? raw racist? if you are you now a racist if you put those precautions in place? rachel: remember when the democrats said never let a crisis go to waste. this is one of the perfect examples. this is our chance. covid hit in the name of covid we are going to do all the things that the voters never let us do. after it s over they says well, this is the way it always was. it s so dishonest. lawrence lawrence they had their talking points together in t