As the political battle lines continue to be drawn around the subject of voting rights, there appear to be two new adversaries heading for the figurative lecterns of the conversation.
On one hand, there’s President Joe Biden, who believes vehemently that every person in the nation should be able to vote with the least amount of impediments possible. On the right, they fear that this will bring about mass voter fraud that could favor Democrats for the foreseeable future.
The new figurehead of Biden’s opposition appears to be Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who this week issued a stern rebuke of the Commander in Chief.
Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Republican, took to Twitter late Tuesday to blame President Biden for willfully spreading “misinformation” about the state GOP’s sweeping elections overhaul bill.
Biden, who was in Old City, Philadelphia, on Tuesday rebuked the bill in no uncertain terms. He said proponents of the election security measures are engaging in “21st century Jim Crow assault.”
Biden’s remarks came a day after Texas Democrats decamped for Washington in an effort to deny their GOP-controlled Legislature the necessary quorum to pass a bill placing new restrictions on voting in the state.
Abbott, who told Fox News the Democrats who fled the state face arrest upon their return, insisted that the bill in Texas is “making it EASIER to vote & harder to cheat.”
Abbott did not mince his words:
“Once again, President Biden ignores the facts,” Abbott said. “The fact is that Texas is passing a law that expands—not reduces—the hours of early voting. That’s more than many states, including President Biden’s home state of Delaware, which has zero hours of early voting.”
He said the law will help prevent mail-in ballot fraud in the state and will “uphold the integrity of our elections and ensure that Texas who do qualify to vote by mail will have the ability to do so.”
Given the new ferocity of this issue on the national stage, there is little doubt that voting rights will be one of the premier issues of the next several elections.
