{"id":1207263,"date":"2022-01-11T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207263"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:31","slug":"georgia-voting-rights-coalitions-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-should-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-voting-rights-coalitions-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-should-stay-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Voting Rights Coalitions: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Should Stay Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-voting-rights-coalitions-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-should-stay-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/50225841696_d200f60410_c-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden plans to deliver an angry speech condemning election integrity laws in Georgia on Tuesday, but prominent voting rights activists are skipping the event and telling him to stay home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of giving a speech tomorrow, the US Senate should be voting tomorrow,\u201d a coalition of voting rights groups said in a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jan\/11\/georgia-biden-harris-visit-voting-rights-bill\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need now, rather than a visit from the president, vice-president and legislators is for the White House and Senate to remain in DC and act immediately to pass federal legislation to protect our freedom to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia groups criticizing Joe Biden\u2019s speech as a \u201cphoto op\u201d include The Galeo Impact Fund, New Georgia Project Action Fund, Black Votes Matter, Asian American Advocacy Fund, and the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia voters are facing attacks on all fronts, and there is not time during these fights to attend a speech and meet to reiterate the seriousness of this moment,\u201d the coalition said in a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1480653318766616579.html\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden joins in BLM-MLB effort to politically weaponize the all-star game to punish Georgia for passing basic, common sense election security measures! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6AofkSi6th\">https:\/\/t.co\/6AofkSi6th<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1377787004138758156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden is expected to call for the United States Senate to end the filibuster rules in order to federalize elections with only a 50 vote margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re beyond speeches. At this point, what we need, what we are demanding, is federal legislation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/politics\/biden-georgia-speech-voting-rights-groups-seek-action\/2610077\/\">said<\/a> LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Votes Matter.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is traveling with Vice President Kamala Harris, who also plans to speak on the issue after taking it under her policy portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>James Woodall, former president of the NAACP of Georgia dismissed Biden and Harris\u2019 trip to the state as \u201cmore platitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not need any more speeches, we don\u2019t need any more platitudes,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/10\/us\/politics\/biden-stacey-abrams-voting-rights.html\">said<\/a> to the <em>New York Times.<\/em> \u201cWe don\u2019t need any more photo ops. We need action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden plans to deliver an angry speech condemning election integrity laws in Georgia on Tuesday, but prominent voting rights activists are skipping the event and telling him to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}