Joe Biden repeatedly tells same lie about new election laws
US President Joe Biden has been slammed for telling the same fib about new election laws multiple times, even after his claims were debunked.
In recent days, President Joe Biden has repeatedly condemned a new voting law in the US state of Georgia, calling it an attack on working Americans.
The legislation in question, which has been signed into law by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, involves sweeping changes to the way Georgia runs its elections, including new ID requirements for voting by mail.
As you may recall, Georgia was the subject of several debunked voter fraud claims in the wake of last year’s presidential election, most of which focused on mail-in votes.
Anyway, the new law does all sorts of things which are the subject of fierce debate between Republicans and Democrats. But the focus of this article is something Mr Biden has said repeatedly, even though it is blatantly false.
The most recent example comes from an interview the President gave to ESPN on Wednesday night. He was asked about the idea that Major League Baseball might move its All Star Game from Georgia’s capital, Atlanta, in protest against the new voting law.
“I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,” Mr Biden said.
“I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them, they’re leaders.
“This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they’re doing in Georgia. What is it all about? Imagine passing a law saying you can’t provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote.
“Come on. Or you’re going to close the polling place at five o’clock, when working people just get off? This is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks that I grew up with from being able to vote.”
For your context here, the Jim Crow laws were a series of state laws that essentially legalised racial segregation in parts of the US until the 1960s.
Mr Biden has raised them on multiple occasions in the past week amid his efforts to discredit the legislation in Georgia.
“It is the most pernicious thing. This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” he said during his first presidential press conference last week.
(I confess, I don’t really understand the point he was trying to make here. Are eagles good and crows bad? I’m not much of an ornithologist.)
“It’s an atrocity,” he said last Friday.
“This is nothing but punitive, and designed to keep people from voting.”
Hyperbolic rhetoric aside, what we’re really talking about here is Mr Biden’s claim that polling places will have to close at 5pm, the implication being that it’s an attempt to stop working class Americans from voting.
“It’s sick. It’s sick. Deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote, deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work,” he said during last week’s media conference.
“Among the outrageous parts of this new state law, it ends voting hours early so working people can’t cast their vote after their shift is over,” the White House added in a statement.
This is incorrect.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/joe-biden-repeatedly-tells-same-lie-about-new-election-laws/news-story/7286fa7ebfd2e7ef9251e018bfa93e8a
Interesting sauce - Australian MSM