1. I think @fordm is accurate here in saying the Biden White House is effectively giving up on the voting rights bills. It's useful to think about why & what that means going forward.pic.twitter.com/sVitdDEFiB
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3. The best argument for de-priotizing voting rights is that it only matters on the margins & that a strong economy is more important in deciding elections. There's something to that but...
4. Margins matter in very close elections, as USA elections are these days. Both last 2 presidencies decided by less than 80,000 votes in 3 states. Also walk-arounds seem flimsy since courts whittling away existing voting rights laws.
5. Bottom line is that there is a disconnect between Dem rhetoric (existential threat!) and actions (de-prioritizing voting rights laws). That disconnect is likely to be demoralizing to Dem voters:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/biden-turns-his-back-on-voting-rights?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
If this were a drag race, where two high performance cars race each other for a short distance on a straight track, then not fighting to reinforce the voting rights act or push for any protections is like letting your opponent push your car back 100 feet from the starting line 1/
2/ and then spending every day until you lose the race in November 2022 saying, "We got this!" Then the consultants will start shipping out invoices for an autopsy to figure out what went wrong with starting that far behind the starting line. * *w/ fewer black votes
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