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The New York Times - Biden condemns Georgia’s crackdown on voting access as ‘Jim Crow in the 21st century.’
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A question looming over the last four years - whether Trumpism would outlast Trump - was answered emphatically with the passage of a new law in Georgia curbing voting access for state residents, redefining a national debate on terms dictated by the former president.
Weeks after former President Donald J. Trump tried to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state, Georgia Republicans passed a sweeping bill to restrict voting access. The measure was very much in line with Mr. Trump’s false claims that expanded voter access had led to massive fraud and, in turn, his defeat.
In a statement on Friday, Mr. Biden condemned the law as “un-American” and “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
“It’s an atrocity,” he told reporters outside the White House. “If you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they passed a law saying you can’t provide water for people standing in line while they’re waiting to vote. You don’t need anything else to know that this is nothing but punitive, designed to keep people from voting.”
The new law, signed on Thursday by the Republican governor, Brian Kemp - who was browbeaten by Mr. Trump for not supporting the effort to overturn the election - introduces more rigid voter identification requirements for absentee balloting, limits drop boxes and expands the legislature’s power over elections.
It will have an outsize impact on Black voters, who make up roughly one-third of Georgia’s population and vote overwhelmingly Democratic. ...
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The Washington Post - Opinion: The GOP, America’s most selfless political party
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Republican politicians have proven themselves an admirably selfless bunch.
Time and again, they’ve handed over credit to Democrats - and Democrats alone - for all sorts of popular policy initiatives.
A year ago, Washington Republicans abdicated leadership on any coherent federal response to the pandemic, praising a Republican president who proudly didn’t “take responsibility at all” on the issue. (That president left office with a 38 percent approval rating for his handling of the outbreak; President Biden’s marks are now roughly double that, at 73 percent.)
Then last month, Republicans effectively conceded political credit for the strengthening economic recovery by refusing to award a single vote to Biden’s popular $1.9 trillion fiscal relief bill. (The bill was favored by most Americans, in some polls by a supermajority.)
Now, astonishingly, Republicans are on the verge of surrendering to Democrats solo credit on yet another popular issue: upgrading the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Last week Biden pitched a $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Survey after survey has found that investing more government money in “infrastructure” has broad, bipartisan support: 85 percent of voters overall, and 82 percent of Republicans specifically, agree that “America is in need of an infrastructure improvement,” a recent Morning Consult poll found. ...
But whatever Republican voters think about the idea, Republican politicians are against it. Although GOP politicians are still casting about for reasons why, exactly, they oppose it.
Sometimes their objection is that the proposal defines infrastructure too broadly, a “liberal wish-list the White House has decided to label ‘infrastructure.’ ”
Biden’s plan includes not only investments in roads and bridges but also broadband, energy, manufacturing, wastewater systems, electric cars, housing, school buildings and more. ...
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