We need to stop this evident to change our elections now before it goes further. Ultimately we need the united States Senate to act. Having federal intervention to protect the right to vote. The New York Times is reporting that the president is expected to step up his public profile on the issue of Voting Rights. The times is signaling it may at this point simply be window dressing. They report, quote, President Biden is expected to put his political muscle behind the issue in a speech in philadelphia tuesday. In congress, democratic senators have been unable to move Voting And Election bills that would address what many call a fundamental attack on american democracy that could lock in a new era of republican minority rule. In the courts attacks on Voting Restrictions face an increasingly hostile judiciary. There is extreme peril in the democratic Partys Frame on this issue. The democratic construct politically is pushing moderates to abandon the filibuster is more dicey than to allow
The system and making it better. so republicans aren t about that. i think we know that now very clearly. so what it s going to require is the rest of us. what citizens are joining those legislators who come into town this week? what efforts are occurring in state capitols around the country to press on state legislators that the american people don t want this change? because wake up, folks. there s no fraud in the 2020 election. what the hell do you think is going to happen in 22 and 24? that s what the big setup is. that s what this setup is all about. so the stcey abrams, the joe manchins, the liz cheneys, they re trying to course correct before we get there so we don t have to confront real fraud when republican legislators decide, you know what, i m sorry, democratic candidate, you did
Not win that district because there was fraud. or democratic nominee for president, sorry you didn t win the presidential so we re just going to make sure when it gets to congress the vote doesn t go the way you want. that s what this is about. claire, you sound pessimistic that anything can happen legislatively. if i m wrong, set me straight. what would you do if you were still in the chamber? well, i d be talking to my republican colleagues and calling them out. the fraud is the fig leaf. it s just silly. what this really is about is what the republican party has become. not only is it beholden to the other guy, who was a disaster as a president and lied every day like other people brush their teeth, but more importantly they now stand just for this. they don t stand for free trade. they just stand for not letting
Laws? it s certainly at least a big part of it is the kind of obsession of former president trump with the 2020 election and his false claims and the big lie that the election was stolen from him. you can look at every one of these bills that has come through texas, georgia and florida and they make an allusion to fraud and then in the hearings we can use texas as the most recent example a top official in the secretary of state s office in texas who was in charge of running elections testified that there was no significant instances of fraud that would have changed any of the elections whatsoever. yet, at the top of all these bills they cite fraud. even in justice alito s opinion in the supreme court he cites fraud. there s this kind of disconnect between the reality in the country that fraud is extremely rare and this obsession fuelled mostly by former president trump and his allies that fraud was the reason he lost the election. so i think that kind of
Least a midterm election where there would be new voting laws, where voters would face greater barriers to access their ballot where there could be new partisan power grabs. the immediacy of everything at least from the voting rights and civil rights group perspective means they need this action now. the court is certainly something you have to think about, but it s not the first thing. nick, you flagged some reporting by the great journalists at the atlanta journal constitution about the deliberate way these laws were crafted to disproportionately harm democratic voters and places where there was zero fraud. so there is no integrity rationale on which any of these laws stands, certainly not the texas law which is shutting down drop boxes in harris county where there s no reports of fraud, and certainly not the georgia law, where they re shutting down some of the ways that democratic voters and minority voters disproportionately voted in