In an interview with NBCNews, VP Harris pushed back against Republican criticism that President Biden's speech in Atlanta on voting rights was overly divisive.
Asked to respond to comments from Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah — who on Wednesday said that Biden was going"down the same tragic road taken by President Trump, casting doubt on the reliability of American elections" — Harris said that the president took the"right and courageous step to say that Senate rules should not get in the way of protecting the American people's access to the ballot.
In his speech on Tuesday, Biden framed the decision on voting rights legislation as a choice between"Dr. King or George Wallace."he will force a procedural vote But Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., have expressed an unwillingness to changing the filibuster. Without their votes, Democrats would be unable to change Senate rules to get around the 60-vote threshold.
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