Biden Calls Republican Voting Laws ‘Assault’ On America

By Staff, Agencies

Praising his election in 2020 as the ‘pinnacle of democracy,’ US President Joe Biden called Republicans domestic enemies of the country and said their state voting laws are the greatest threat to the US since the Civil War.

Making an appearance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Biden condemned the election integrity laws enacted by a number of Republican-majority states this year as “vicious” and “odious” attempts at voter suppression and intimidation, taking “literally pernicious” forms.

“There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty. An assault on who we are,” he said.

He argued that the Republicans were seeking to make it harder for Americans to vote and that they “subvert” the electoral process by changing who counts the votes and how in response to the “Big Lie” that his victory in the 2020 presidential election over the incumbent Donald Trump wasn’t on the level.

In his telling, the 2020 election was remarkable because officials around the country made it much easier to vote, so that over 150 million Americans – the highest number ever – voted amid a pandemic, yet also featured “unrelenting” political attacks, physical threats and intimidation by Republicans. Biden claimed that all the results had been confirmed by multiple recounts and all challenges heard and rejected by more than 80 judges.

“No other election was ever held under such scrutiny, under such high standards. The Big Lie is just that – a big lie,” he declared.

Never mentioning Trump by name, Biden argued that challenging the results of a presidential election was un-American – even though that’s what the Democrats did in 2016, when Trump won over Hillary Clinton, by pushing the Russiagate conspiracy theory.

“If you lose, you accept the results and follow the constitution. You don’t call facts fake and try to bring down the American experiment just because you’re unhappy. That’s not statesmanship, that’s selfishness,” Biden said.