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Biden Condemns Republican “Election Subversion” But Does Not Call for End to Filibuster

HeadlineJul 14, 2021

President Joe Biden delivered a major voting rights speech in Philadelphia Tuesday, excoriating the Republican Party for “election subversion” and urging Congress to pass the For the People Act.

President Joe Biden: “This year alone, 17 states have enacted — not just proposed, but enacted — 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote, not to mention — and catch this — nearly 400 additional bills Republican members of the state legislatures are trying to pass.”

But Biden stopped short of calling for an end to the filibuster, which many now see as the only way to circumvent Republican obstructionism and to pass voting rights legislation at the federal level. We’ll have more on voting rights later in the broadcast with two of the Texas Democratic state representatives who helped lead this week’s walkout to block the passage of Texas Republicans’ voter suppression bills.

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