Former President Trump
Donald TrumpHouse Votes To Condemn Chinese Government Over Hong Kong Former Vice President Walter Mondale Dies At Age 93 White House Prepares For Chauvin’s Ruling MORE on Monday suggested that a widely criticized electoral law recently passed in Georgia is not restrictive enough and said Republicans in the state were weakening the bill for fear of being accused of being called “racists.”
“My reaction is that the Georgia law is way too weak,” Trump told Fox News presenter Sean Hannity during an extensive interview from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he now lives.
“It’s just where you need to have signature verification. They don’t have it. Why don’t they have signature verification? You want matching. You want matching signatures. They have a lot of things that they haven’t entered. Look, what happened is that the governor and others were afraid of being called racists. ”
Earlier this year, lawmakers in Georgia passed a bill to overhaul local electoral laws, tighten voting requirements, and reduce other measures for access to voters, such as shortening the time that a resident of Georgia can cast a ballot. to request.
Critics say the bill is unfairly targeting minority voters who, in some cases, lack personal identification or reliable transportation to a polling station.
President Biden
Joe Biden Obama, Clinton reflects on Mondale’s legacy Biden, Harris praises Mondale for paving the way for female VP Mondale in latest message to staff: ‘Joe in the White House certainly helps’ MORE described the measure as “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
“This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in state houses across the country, is a blatant assault on the constitution and a good conscience,” Biden said. ‘It must come to an end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act. ‘
The bill’s passage was also widely condemned by the corporate world, with major Georgia-based companies such as Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines overturning the measure.
Trump and other Republicans have suggested that such strict voting restrictions are needed to combat the fraud they believe is ripe for modern elections and have characterized backlash against Georgian law as a symptom of the so-called “cancellation culture.”
“So they gave a very weak bill,” Trump said on Monday. And they are called racists anyway. They had a much stronger bill a few weeks before it came out. ‘
The former president suggested that the partisan struggle over electoral law in Georgia shows that “the Democrats are playing a much more difficult game than the Republicans.”