Heilemann: ‘It Takes a Lot of Dumbassery’ for GOP to Pursue Voter Integrity Bills Right Now

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HEILEMANN: "And the only thing I’ll say about it right now is it goes back to our earlier conversation about how idiotic these guys are. Because I’ll tell you, it takes a lot of dumbassery to take a process issue and puncture The National dialogue and make ate voting issue. The notion of the filibuster, the voter process, all of this stuff is stuff that most voters don’t care about, don’t pay attention to. But Republicans have gone so far and are in the process of going so far right now, that they’ve evaluated this issue in a way that it is going to backfire on them. Both in the — states like Georgia, where black voters will rise up and say, 'No, you are not going to take my vote away from me.' But also, what happened yesterday in Georgia was that the odds of H.R. 1 or a slimmed down version of H.R. 1 passing in the United States Congress just doubled yesterday on the basis of this Georgia legislation. It is incredibly — it’s incredibly self-defeating strategy that Republicans are going about right now, because they’re elevating this issue, making it salient, and they are going to shoot themselves in the foot or in the head on this question again by doing what they’re doing."