Biden calls GOP voting bills 'odious and vicious' and are 'the most significant threat to democracy since the Civil War' in speech attacking the Supreme Court, Trump's 'Big Lie' and the 'assault on elections'
Biden launched a counter assault to attempts by states to change voting rights laws, blasting the 'threat to democracy' and vowing to project elections
Biden blasted attempts to undermine confidence in American elections
'The Big Lie is just that - a big lie,' he said, referring to Trump's false claim he won
'We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,' Biden said in 25 minute speech in the historic National Constitution Center
He called on Congress to pass Democrats two key voting rights legislation, which are being held up by Republican lawmakers
Republicans decry those bill as a federal takeover of elections and defend the bills at state levels as protecting the integrity of voting
Biden giving his remarks in the birthplace of democracy
Speech comes as many Democrats, including some Biden allies, have blasted the president for not doing enough on the issue
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