Sen. Lindsey Graham blasted President Biden on Sunday for using the “race card” while responding to the new Georgia election law.
Graham was asked to respond to the new law that President Biden called “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
“You know what’s sick is that the president of the United States played the race card continuously in such a hypocritical way,” Graham said to Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “He said the filibuster was a relic of the Jim Crow era. Well, he made an hour speech when he was a senator suggesting the filibuster was the best thing for the Senate to make it different in the House.”
The new legislation signed into law by Gov. Kemp on Thursday imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.
Biden has called on Congress to pass H.R. 1, a measure that has cleared the House and would significantly enhance the voting rights of millions of Americans.
H.R. 1 includes provisions to provide automatic voter registration, expand early voting, restore voting rights for felons who’ve complete their prison sentences, bars states from restricting the ability to vote by mail and calls for independent redistricting commissions to draw the electoral map.
Graham called H.R. 1 “sick” and nothing like the law passed in Georgia.
“To my friends in Georgia, they had the highest turnout in the history of Georgia. We had 150 million something people vote,” Graham said. “So every time a Republican does anything, we’re a racist. If you’re a white conservative, you’re a racist. If you’re a black Republican, you’re either a prop or Uncle Tom. They use the racism card to advance a liberalism agenda and we’re tired of it. H.R. 1 is sick, not what they’re doing in Georgia.”
