‘They use the racism card to advance a liberal agenda, and we’re tired of it,’ Graham told ‘Fox News Sunday’
Sunday Senator Lindsey Graham said it was “sick” that President Biden is using the “race card” regarding the GOP-led Georgia election law and also the legislative filibuster.
“What’s sick is for the president of the U.S. to play the race card continuously in such a hypocritical way,” Graham stated.
During an appearance made on “Fox News Sunday,” Graham slammed Biden for claiming that policy and legislation he disagrees with are relics of racism and the Jim Crow era.
Graham criticized Biden and Democrats for his or her opposition to the filibuster, given both the president’s and the party’s advocacy to retain the order in the past.
The South Carolina senator criticized the Democrats’ own proposed legislation, the “For the People” act, and claimed their own response to reforming election regulation would be the largest”power grab” in American history.
Graham mirrored previous GOP lawmakers in his criticism of H.R. 1 and said that the bill wasn’t unconstitutional, by federalizing state elections, but also would enact or inhibit various other dubious practices, including ballot harvesting, rollbacks of voter ID requirements, and messing with the processes of the Federal Election Commission.
“Every time a Republican does anything, we’re racist,” Graham told Chris Wallace. “They use the racism card to advance a liberal agenda, and we’re tired of it. H.R. 1 is sick, not what we’re doing in Georgia.”
On Thursday, during his first White House press conference, Biden said that the Georgia election law was not only “sick” but “un-American.”
“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is,” the president said. “It’s sick, it’s sick.”
Biden at one time called the Georgia election bill “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and an “atrocity” that had “nothing to do with decency.”
The law will make voting hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or as long as 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. It will require two Saturdays of early voting instead of one and makes two Sundays optional for early voting.
It will still allow absentee voting without offering an explanation but will require a state-issued ID to request a ballot. The law will also ban handing out water and food to voters waiting in line at the polls and shortens runoff elections from nine to four weeks.
The law goes on to limit ballot drop boxes, requiring them to be placed at early voting locations and only available while the precinct is open. The law tilts some power over elections to state lawmakers and the Georgia State Elections Board.
It would also wrest election authority from Georgia’s secretary of state, allowing the legislature instead to appoint a chair of the state election board.