story. reporting this morning, it is detailing why joe biden s team split with the democratic party s longtime lawyer on voting rights issues, mark elias. elias is the gold standard in democratic circles for voting litigation. what happened here? what was the split actually about? there are two things. one is strategic, and one is a bit more about style or about, like, personal tensions. the strategic dispute here is that, you know, joe biden s team think that mark elias is being, in some way, too aggressive. doesn t the conservative makeup of the judiciary right now, that filing all of these lawsuits has the chance to actually create bad precedent and backfire. on the personal level, they just you know, biden s team has just felt that mark has not really kept them in the loop. in several instances, mark biden s team would find out mark had filed a lawsuit by finding out about it on twitter or
responsible for voting rights issues. as we know this country, there are a few questions around voting rights. some of us had warrants surrounding voting rights. in addition to all the police brutality. everyone can unanimously say that what happened in memphis was problematic. what really did happen in memphis? how do we get here? that is the question, how do we make sure that there is not another tyre nichols. so it s important that we have this oversight, and we use in a smart way. the idea that next week, i m going to be dealing with twitter and hunter biden s elapsed top, these are the priorities? that is a problem, when we have people dying in the streets. so i think this was a very common sense amendment. and marjorie taylor greene seems to agree, kind of. kind of. you brought her up. let s play, this what she had to say about tyre nichols. i do agree with you about tyre nichols death, i watched
as you say i like to talk straight plain and simple. just about 6 to 7 weeks until mid terms, what else can congress do on voting rights issues that we are seeing across the country? well sharpton 50 clergy up. they had a simple point. keep voting on the voting rights act. keep voting on making sure that the child tax credit is permanent. that is a difference between somebody being evicted or being able to stay in their apartment. keep voting to make sure that we actually are giving folks health care. and a livable wage. you know the republicans vote 70 80 times to take away people s health care. we figure we vote once and then we are done with it. now let s go on the record and vote and show the american people what the republicans actually stand for and what we stand for. we need to engage clergy for. i m sick and tired of them
people in this country who have been participating in our economy for years now who are fully vetted and could immediately come in and help our economy, and yet there is no movement on that. mpp is still in place a month plus after the supreme court said it could be taken out. title 42 is still in effect. two different things, but related to something that could help our economy, senator. exactly. and the studies are out there, the data is out there, if we were to advance pathways to citizenship, not automatic but pathways to citizenship for so many immigrants that have earned it that are here today, it would be a benefit to the economy for everybody. but, sadly, immigration is just one example. we expect hostile amendments this weekend possibly on the right to choice or the right to an abortion. marriage equality, civil rights protections, voting rights
Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters cast a ballot. And also there was no uniform drubbing of one party by the other. It was not a blowout. It was a competitive election. Yes, joe biden won by a healthy margin. 7 million votes. 70 plus Electoral College votes. But remember republicans gained seats in the house. They want some key senate rates right . Now rather than looking at that outcome and thinking wow, we can be a Competitive Party even in high turnout elections which would have been a totally rational conclusion. Republican