Biden Says American Democracy Is Under Siege

“President Biden on Tuesday delivered his most forceful condemnation yet of the wave of voting restrictions proposed in Republican-led states nationwide — efforts the president argued are the biggest threat to American democracy since the Civil War,” the Washington Post reports.

“He compared modern day laws to the voter suppression that took place under the KKK and the Jim Crow laws that imposed poll taxes, literary tests, and disenfranchised nearly all voters who were not White or male. He railed against new state laws that restrict access — calling them “raw and sustained election subversion” — and said that the 2022 midterm elections could highlight the damaging impacts of the new laws.”

Said Biden: “Hear me clearly. There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote and fair and free elections. An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are.”