A number of voting rights activists located in Atlanta conspicuously boycotted Biden's speech on Tuesday
Biden speaks on voting rights at the Atlanta University Center. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock For months, voting rights advocates have complained that Joe Biden was excessively focused on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and then the Build Back Better package at the expense of their urgent legislative priorities.
That this gesture may have come a little late to satisfy Biden’s critics was made clear by the fact that a number of voting rights activists located in Atlanta conspicuously boycotted the speech, as CNN reported: If this last group sounds familiar to non-Georgians, it’s probably because it’s an arm of the voting rights group founded by 2018 and 2022 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who cited a scheduling conflict in skipping Biden’s speech as well.
Here was Albright’s zinger: “There’s no sense in having 40 years of Senate experience only to tell us that you can’t whip two votes,” meaning Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the stubborn Democratic opponents of filibuster reform.
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