On Tuesday, the President will be in Georgia to advocate a pair of laws called the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the For the People Act, which Democrats claim are needed to expand voting rights, rein in gerrymandering, and form new ethics roles for federal officeholders.
But the party may lack the votes to enact the bills, directing a reporter to ask White House press secretary Jen Psaki if Biden has an intention to pass the bills rather than just talk about them.
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"His plan is to sign voting rights legislation into law," Psaki responded. "That requires a majority of senators to support it, even if there are changes to the Senate rules, which is something the president has expressed an openness to."
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Democrats cannot enact the bills on their own under Senate rules, and all the Republicans oppose both of them, considering them as a federal seizure of elections that would sabotage security. Democrats would need to change the filibuster to get them to the president's desk.
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But even that tactic may fail, as Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have said they disagree with these changes. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to debate altering the rules after Biden publicly promoted the bills in Georgia, one of several red states to pass voting reform bills following the 2020 election.
Biden will speak at a historically black college in Atlanta on Tuesday to speak about what the White House calls "the urgent need" to "protect the constitutional right to vote and the integrity of our elections."
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"He will also describe this as one of the rare moments in a country's history when time stops and the essential is immediately ripped away from the trivial," Psaki said, previewing the president's comments. "We have to ensure Jan. 6 doesn't mark the end of democracy but the beginning of a renaissance for our democracy, where we stand up for the right to vote and have that vote counted fairly." Republicans are pushing back.
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"The political Left keeps pitching their big lie that mainstream state voting laws are somehow 'Jim Crow 2.0' if the governor who signs the bill happens to be a Republican," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week.
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Psaki was also asked if Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who refused to concede her 2018 election defeat, will be in attendance. "There will be a number of elected officials joining us traveling and also there," Psaki said. "We're still finalizing that and will get to you that as soon as possible."
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