didn t show up. he didn t really have the support of the people who wanted him to get at it sooner. yeah, voting rights is near and dear to my heart and quite honestly an issue that s very popular across the country. i am very frustrated at where we are right now on this issue. i m not giving up hope. look, if you re going to be an advocate or activist, you can t let one bad week detour you. that s not what happened during the civil rights movement and this voting rights movement. i m frustrated with kyrsten sinema and joe manchin and 50 republicans sitting there, i believe, doing nothing to help save our democracy. i think mitch mcconnell s speech this week in his response to president boiden s speech in georgia was comical. they often try to make fraud and suppression a synonym and quite opposite, suppression can exist
i think they often try to make fraud and suppression a synonym and they are quite opposite. suppression can exist even though we know fraud doesn t really exist in this election system. and i don t think that for the people act or the john lewis voting rights act is an overreach. i think our democracy is in crisis and that if real people were in leadership right now, meaning the republicans that are elected right now and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, we would be able to get this bill passed. but for some reason, they continue to play politics, and quite honestly not put our democracy first. yeah. charlie, there should be more people like you there because when you were there, voting rights, it was unanimous. i mean we even showed mitch mcconnell, who was in congress at the time, saying, you know what? everyone should have the right to vote and applauding that more african americans were being i ve got like ten seconds if you want to respond. just real quick. look, everybody s g