Karine Jeane-Pierre: This Is ‘Blatant Racism’ by Republicans with Voter ID Laws

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JEAN-PIERRE: "Exactly. They sure did. And they had a strict voter I.D. Law last year in Alabama when Doug Jones was running for Senate, and look what happened. We got him in there after 25 years of not having a U.S. Senator and you named states there, North Dakota. They’re trying to disenfranchise native Americans from voting. Ohio. Trying to make it very difficult for people to vote who did not vote in the past election. Indiana, they’re purging, they purged 500,000 voters and didn’t even tell them. So this is what’s going on, but there’s a, we have to look at how we got here, Joy. So Republicans have been incredibly strategic about this. They’ve spent a decade or more investing, spending tens of millions of dollars trying to do what? They’re trying to elect people, their folks in governorships, trying to take back the state houses, the chambers, and they’ve been doing that, and that’s — in order to get these voter suppression laws besides gutting voting rights act, also you’ve got to get your people in there to put these awful laws in place, and that’s what they’ve been doing for a decade and we watched them do this and Democrats didn’t do anything to fight back. Now we’re trying to do that now, but you know, it’s clearly, it’s too late. So it’s good and I’m so glad that the Georgia issue is being talked about almost every day now. It’s getting national attention and it needs to, because what’s happening is pure racism. I think the difference is, people are saying, oh, well. Donald Trump, now that he’s here, you can’t really blame this on Donald Trump. Republicans have been doing this for a long while, as I just stated. I think the difference is now that it’s just blatant racism."