McConnell: Biden voting rights speech 'utter nonsense'
By Jordain Carney - 07/14/21 01:18 PM EDT
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) knocked President Biden’s voting rights speech as “utter nonsense” for calling the fight over voting laws the “most significant test to our democracy since the Civil War.”
“What utter nonsense. It would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn’t so completely and totally irresponsible,” he said.
“This is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring America back together and rebuild a civil society where we can dialogue as fellow citizens,” McConnell added.
McConnell’s remarks come after Biden spoke in Pennsylvania on Tuesday about voting rights as Republican-controlled states debate and enact changes to voting laws after former President Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was “stolen.” That claim, which Trump has continued to make, has spread among GOP voters.
Republicans previously blocked a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections, known as the For the People Act. And McConnell has shot down concern about state-level changes, arguing that they are rolling back changes enacted for the pandemic.
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