Barack Obama Slams Republicans for Restricting Voting Rights

EXCERPT:

OBAMA: “The desire of the American people to be heard led to record turnout in the most recent presidential election. But instead of celebrating these higher levels of civic engagement, Republican politicians, who didn’t like the outcome of the presidential election, felt threatened by the surge in citizen participation, have now decided to double down. They don't want to just make it harder for certain people to vote; they now want to change the rules for how ballots are counted and who gets to count them. Republicans in the Senate are lining up to try to use the filibuster to stop the For the People Act from even being debated in the aftermath of an insurrection with our democracy on the line, and many of these same Republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with legitimacy in our most recent election. They’re suddenly afraid to even talk about these issues and figure out solutions on the floor of the Senate. They don’t even want to talk about voting, and that’s not acceptable.”