Former President Trump
Donald Trump The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden May Find Zero GOP Support for Job Plan Republicans Don’t Think Biden Really Wants to Work With Them The Biggest Campaign Issue of 2022? MORE called for a boycott of Major League Baseball after it decided to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest of the state’s new bill signed into law tightening voting restrictions.
“Baseball is already losing a lot of fans, and now they are leaving Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they fear the radical left Democrats who don’t want voter ID, which is badly needed, to have anything to do with our election.” Trump said in a statement from Save America PAC.
Boycott baseball and all the awakened companies that interfere in free and fair elections. Do you listen to Coca-Cola, Delta and all! he added, referring to other companies that have criticized the new law.
The rebuke is the latest from a Republican over MLB’s decision to move his July 13 game from Atlanta.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that the decision was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport” in light of Gov. Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden May Find Zero GOP Support For Jobs Plan Recoil Grows Against Georgia Voting Rights Act American Airlines Rebukes Texas Voting Restrictions MORE‘s (R) signing of the legislation.
“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports the right to vote for all Americans and opposes restrictions on the ballot box,” Manfred said in a statement announcing MLB’s decision.
The new restrictions include restrictions on the number of ballots, shortening the time period during which a resident of Georgia can apply for a mail-in ballot, and new photo ID requirements for mail-in ballots.
Democrats, including President Biden
Joe Biden The Hill’s Morning Report – Biden May Find Zero GOP Support for Job Plan Republicans Don’t Think Biden Really Wants to Work With Them Lack of Cyber Funds in Biden Infrastructure Plan raises eyebrows MORE, have rejected the law, saying it amounts to voter oppression and targets voters of color.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey also called the restrictions “ unacceptable ” and “ a step back, ” and Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the law “ contains provisions that make it easier for many underrepresented voters, especially black voters. voters, more difficult to exercise. their constitutional right to elect their representatives. “
Kemp denounced MLB over the announcement, calling it “cancel culture,” adding that the league was collapsing under democratic pressure.
Georgians – and all Americans – must fully understand what the MLB’s decision means: cancel culture and wake up political activists to every aspect of your life, including sports. If the left disagrees with you, the facts and the truth doesn’t matter, ”Kemp said in a statement.
Rep. Jeff Duncan
Jeffrey (Jeff) Darren Duncan READ: The Republicans Who Voted To Challenge Election Results Here Are The Republicans Planning To Challenge Electoral College Results Top GOP Lawmakers Call For Swalwell Removed From Intelligence Commission MORE (RS.C.) said he is instructing his staff to put together legislation that would rid MLB of its federal antitrust exception.
Republicans have defended the law and said it is necessary to ensure election security. There was no substantial evidence to suggest that widespread voter fraud occurred in Georgia or other swing states during the pandemic during the 2020 election.
Trump, in particular, has repeatedly claimed that Georgia suffered widespread voter fraud after Biden won the state by just over 11,000 votes. His loss there marked the first time since 1992 that a Republican presidential candidate has lost Georgia.