President Biden vowed a major voting bill would be one of his first acts. Allies say the White House has been MIA
But if the allies on that November call had expected a rousing speech or valuable insight into the White House’s strategy on voting rights, they left the call disappointed.
Harris’ appearance was emblematic of a White House that, as critics see it, was disengaged for far too long in the fight to pass voting-rights legislation. In fairness, the voting bills put forward by Democrats were always going to be a long-shot: Republicans stood in lockstep opposition to expanding the right to vote, and all 50 Senate Democrats needed to agree to not only support the bills but to weaken the filibuster in order to proceed to a vote.
Spokespeople for President Biden and Vice President Harris declined to comment on the record for this story. There was now a path to passing new voting legislation. It was narrow: Not only would all 50 Democrats need to vote yes, but they’d need to agree to change the rules of the filibuster first, the tactic that allows the minority party to block non-fiscal and budgetary bills. But what had been considered unimaginable under a GOP-held Senate was now barely possible.
In July, Rev. Al Sharpton, head of the National Action Network and a host on MSNBC, says he and seven other civil-rights leaders met with Biden and pleaded with him to “use the bully pulpit” on voting rights. Soon afterward, Biden traveled to Philadelphia and gave his most forceful speech yet. “The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real,” he said. “It’s unrelenting, and we’re going to challenge it vigorously.
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