Biden forcefully defends US elections: 'The Big Lie is just that: A big lie'
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) President Joe Biden on Tuesday defended the American electoral process amid unrelenting attacks from Republicans who have refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in restrictive voting laws being passed around the nation.
Biden began his speech in Philadelphia by recounting the stories of Americans who voted in the last election, lauding them for their efforts to cast their ballots amid the Covid-19 pandemic. He noted that the last election had the most votes cast in any election in American history. ut he quickly turned his focus to the attacks on the 2020 election process, calling it the most scrutinized in American history. He alluded to former President Donald Trump's complaints about the election results, saying those who would deny the election result are simply denying facts.
"The Big Lie is just that: A big lie," Biden said. The address from Biden comes in the aftermath of former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and as Republican-controlled legislatures have pressed ahead with new state laws imposing limits on voting. Since the November election, state lawmakers have enacted 28 laws in 17 states that restrict ballot access, according to a June tally by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
"In the birthplace of American Democracy, President Biden will articulate how to meet the greatest threat to the right to vote and the integrity of our elections since the Civil War, renew his call for vital legislation -- to overcome the rash of anti-voter laws motivated by the Big Lie, and underline the all-of-government effort the Biden-Harris Administration launched to use the powers of the executive branch to protect and advance the sacred, constitutional right to vote," a White House official told CNN on Tuesday ahead of the speech.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/13/politics/voting-rights-joe-biden-trump-big-lie/index.html
He just got done (was watching a stream).
The speech can be viewed here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017667198
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Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden issued a dire and angry warning Tuesday that the very underpinnings of American democracy were under threat, calling an ongoing assault on voting rights the gravest challenge to American democracy since the Civil War. But he stopped short of embracing changes to Senate procedure that might open the door to new laws protecting those rights, a step activists have said is essential as they urge the President to say and do more on an issue he's said is the most important of his presidency.
The President's speech in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, was meant as an opening salvo in what officials say will be an ongoing push against restrictive voting laws being passed around the nation. In it, Biden took particular aim at his predecessor Donald Trump and other Republicans who have refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, accusing them of fomenting a pattern of denial that is fracturing the country's foundations.
"In America, if you lose, you accept the results," Biden said inside the soaring atrium of the National Constitution Center. "You follow the Constitution, you try again. You don't call facts 'fake' and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship. That's selfishness."
It was the most forcefully Biden has inveighed against Trump since taking office. At one point, accusing Republicans of shirking truth and responsibility for upholding the Constitution, he bellowed: "Have you no shame?" One of the fieriest speeches of Biden's presidency to date, Biden's remarks reflected the fury he and fellow Democrats have cultivated as Republicans follow Trump's lead in denying the election results. He predicted it is likely Republicans will use a similar strategy in the 2022 midterms, saying "we have to prepare now."
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Telling it like it is. 
(now folks are trapped in the motorcade traffic shutdowns downtown as Prez. Biden heads for the airport - I would have been one of them if I hadn't been retired 
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Biden Blasts New State GOP Voting Restrictions
PHILADELPHIA—President Biden blasted efforts in Republican-controlled states to tighten voting rules and called on Congress to advance stalled legislation in a speech Tuesday, as he faces pressure from some Democrats and activists to do more to curb GOP-backed election-law changes.
Mr. Biden likened the efforts in some states to enact tougher election rules to Jim Crow laws that prevented Blacks from voting and labeled them as undemocratic. He also criticized Republicans who oppose Democratic-sponsored voting legislation in the Senate.
“Hear me clearly: There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today—an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote and fair and free elections,” Mr. Biden said. “An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are as Americans.”
“We’ve got to act,” Mr. Biden said as he ended his speech at the National Constitution Center, knocking his fist against the podium.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-blasts-new-state-gop-voting-restrictions/ar-AAM7grn
