Fury over voting rights fight turns personal on Capitol Hill
By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong - 01/20/22 06:00 AM EST
The fight over voting rights has gone from partisan to personal.
President Biden and his Democratic allies, furious with Republicans for opposing voting rights protections they had embraced for decades, are lashing out across the aisle with racially charged assertions that the GOP would rather secure power than ensure civil rights.
Republicans have fired back, accusing their Democratic critics of twisting the debate away from the underlying policy to launch unfounded — and highly disparaging — attacks on the fundamental integrity of their political adversaries.
The discussion has become inflamed in ways remarkable even by the standards of the fierce hostility and heightened distrust that practically defines relations between the two parties on Capitol Hill, particularly since last year’s attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
Those tensions, simmering irregularly for the last year, are now bursting into full boil as Democrats seek to adopt new federal voting protections designed to counteract the efforts of GOP-led states to install new restrictions at the polls heading into the midterm elections.
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