January 29, 2023
“Jim Crow 2.0 is about two things: voter suppression and election subversion. It’s no longer about who gets to vote; it’s about making it harder to vote”- Joe Biden
“A despicable voter suppression bill” that will “take Georgia back to Jim Crow”- Elizabeth Warren
“A redux of Jim Crow”- Stacey Abrams
“…the new law will create fresh barriers to voters of color…” The Guardian
“This bill is about nothing less than taking away the right to vote…and the governor is proud to sign it”- CNN’s Don Lemon
A sampling of responses from Democratic lawmakers and the media after Georgia Republicans introduced the Election Integrity Act, which required voters to provide an ID to receive an absentee ballot and expanded early voting. While Democrats decried racism and voter suppression, Republicans asserted the new law made it easier for Georgians to vote but harder to cheat.
As increasingly common, corporate America disregarded the facts and sided with the left. American Express, Coco-Cola, United Airlines, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, and Merck naming just a few of the hundreds of corporate officials who issued statements critical of the law. And recall, Major League Baseball moved the All-star game out of Atlanta in protest, costing the city an estimated $100 million in tourism revenue. At the time, Biden remarked:
“I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would strongly support them doing that…this is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia…”
The facts are in, and surprise, surprise- the left’s cries of racism and voter suppression have once again proven to be lies and nothing more than political pandering to rile up the Democratic base.
Not only was voting not suppressed in Georgia, but voting surged last year. More than 850,000 Georgians cast early ballots in the 2021 Georgia primary- a 212% increase over the 2020 presidential primary. Georgia voters also set the record for most ballots cast before election day in a midterm election.
A recent post-election survey from the University of Virginia further underscores how the media and Democratic lawmakers mislead the American people about Georgia’s election-reform law. None of the 364 black voters polled had a “poor” voting experience. Rather, 72.6% of voters said their experience was “excellent”.
Has the president who vowed to unite the country and stated he “made a commitment when I made a mistake, I’d tell you I’ve made mistakes”, admit that, at best, he was dead wrong about the Georgia law? Of course not. No surprise, neither have the Democratic lawmakers and those in the media who were critical of the law.
Just further confirmation that Biden and almost the entirety of the Democratic party promote division and always prioritize political power over truth.
