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Senate Majority Leader Charles SchumerChuck SchumerCentrists succeeds in infrastructure talks; cyber attack amid Biden-Putin summit Five takeaways in Obamacare Supreme Court decision that the Senate confirmed Chris Inglis as the White House’s first cyber czar MORE (DN.Y.) on Monday boosted efforts to squeeze Republicans first in a major test vote on a harsh election bill, railing against new voting rules in GOP-led states and former President TrumpDonald TrumpMaria Bartiromo defended the reporting: ‘I continue to trash, I continue to tell the truth’ The Memo: The center turns the eye of Republicans as Nashville crack-up to get a seat in the House Extra efforts to doubt the election.
Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor, tied the vote Tuesday to test Trumps false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, even though the legal challenge to him and the election experts have denied allegations of widespread voter fraud.
He repeatedly lied … poisoning our democracy, kindling fires between Republican state legislators who immediately launched the least voter suppression effort in 80 years. Just a note, how disgusting a man Donald Trump is? Schumer asked.
He lost the election legitimately. He couldn’t face that, that it was his failure and he was creating a lie, a big lie, Schumer added.
Schumer then read some of the ideas that have been introduced, debated and in some cases passed into GOP-controlled state laws including limiting voting by mail, access to drop boxes and more stringent voter ID requirements.
Republicans defended the laws by noting that states expanded access last year during the coronavirus pandemic and are now rolling back as the country emerges from the pandemic.
Does that look like Jim Crow, my Republican colleagues? This is certain to many of us, Schumer said.
The big lie that started with Donald Trump is contagious to them, Schumer added about GOP senators.
The Senate will hold a vote on Tuesday on whether to advance the For the People Act, a bill that in addition to setting national voting standards also changes the composition of the Federal Election Commission, overhauls campaign finance, puts new congressional redistricting policy and new ethical guidelines for presidents and vice presidents.
The bill would fail to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a legislative filibuster, which Republicans have lined up in unified opposition to the law.
They made it clear that the real driving force behind S. 1 was the desire to forever emulate American election policies. … That’s why the Senate will give this disastrous measure even a quarter, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPortman: Republicans are ‘fully’ committed to the bipartisan bill in infrastructure that Graham called the voting rights bill the ‘biggest power grab’ in history The wild card that could save Democrats in the midterms MORE (R-Ky.) said Monday about the Democratic proposal.
But Schumer said Monday that the vote was not about the For the People Act but rather about whether the chamber should debate voting rights.
It is a vote if the Senate should only debate the issue of voting rights, he said.
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