White House Press Secretary jane saki Wednesday called Republican criticism Joe BidenVoting rights speech ‘hilarious’ in Atlanta.
He defended the president after Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called Biden’s speech a “deep, deeply un-presidential” and GOP Senator Mitt Romney said Biden was taking the same ‘tragic road’ Donald Trump In an attempt to undermine the credibility of US elections.
Asked about the remarks, Psaki said, “I know there have been a lot of claims of the offensive nature of yesterday’s speech, which is hilarious on many levels, given how many people have voted for the former president over the past four years.” Sit quietly.” In his daily press briefing.
“But I would note that in our view and the president’s view, what is more aggressive is an attempt to suppress the basic right of the people to choose who they want to support and choose,” she said.
Romney voted for one count of impeachment of Trump for his role in inciting the rebellion at the US Capitol on January 6. Trump was eventually acquitted by the entire Senate, which included McConnell’s support for the acquittal.
The Republican senator from Utah also voted to indict Trump in his first impeachment trial and was a harsh critic of the former president, who has repeatedly earned Trump’s earnings.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki calls Republican criticism of Joe Biden’s voting rights speech in Atlanta ‘hilarious’
Republicans made rhetoric in response to his fiery address to Biden on Wednesday, where he alleged GOP Talking about the right to vote, to stand on the wrong side of history.
Romney rebukes Biden after his Atlanta speech. He said in a speech on the Senate floor Biden was taking the same ‘tragic route’ as Trump in undermining the democratic process.
He also urged Democrats to think ‘what it would mean for them’ to eliminate the filibuster now and see themselves potentially losing Congress and the White House in the near future – and declaring it as racist. reprimanded them for doing so.
Romney hit out at Biden and the Democratic Party on the Senate floor Tuesday night in response to the president’s voting rights speech in Georgia.
“He accused many of my good and principled colleagues in the Senate of having sinister, even racist leanings,” Romney said. ‘So much for uniting the country and working across the corridor.’
McConnell also let the president loose.
McConnell said in his remarks on the Senate floor, “The president’s rant – the rant – yesterday was wrong, inconsistent and under his office,” calling Biden’s speech a “deeply, deeply non-presidential.”
In response, Biden tried to meet with McConnell while he was at the Capitol to pay tribute to the late Senate leader Harry Reid, whose remains lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
However, the two people did not connect.
It seems Biden backed down from the attacks.
‘I like Mitch McConnell. He’s a friend,’ he told reporters at the Capitol when asked about McConnell’s remarks.
President Joe Biden tried to meet Mitch McConnell during a stop on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after McConnell slammed him in a speech on the Senate floor.
The war of words ensues as both sides prepare for this November’s midterm election, which will determine which political party controls the House and Senate next year. The fight centers on the voting rights law, which Democrats want to pass, saying it will protect the right vote, and Republicans opposing it, saying elections are a state issue.
Biden made the case for Democrats in a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, prompting a reaction from the Senate Republican leader.
McConnell alleged that Biden deliberately made divisive speech. ‘It was designed to further isolate our country.’
McConnell criticized Biden for equating those opposed to federal voting laws to “literally traitors” and said he was “averse to Americans who disagreed with him.”
The GOP leader alleged, ‘He called millions of Americans his domestic enemy.
‘Look, I’ve liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I didn’t recognize the person on the podium yesterday,’ he said.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell slammed President Joe Biden, calling his Atlanta speech “inaccurate, inconsistent, and down to his office.”
In his speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, President Joe Biden repeatedly attacked Republicans for blocking the voting rights law and accused them of weaponizing filibuster.
In his speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, Biden repeatedly attacked Republicans for blocking the voting rights law and accused them of weaponizing filibuster.
“Republicans use filibusters not to bring the Senate together, but to separate it further,” he said. ‘Filibusters have been weaponized and misused.’
And Biden framed the debate as a political choice – to support or divide the country.
‘Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Would you rather be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?,’ Biden asked.
“This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy,” he said, adding that “each of the members of the Senate will be judged by history as to where they stood before the vote and where they Don’t stand.
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