{"id":1207434,"date":"2022-01-11T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207434"},"modified":"2022-01-11T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:34:41","slug":"stacey-abrams-to-skip-voting-rights-speech-by-biden-this-is-pretty-damning-and-a-warning-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-to-skip-voting-rights-speech-by-biden-this-is-pretty-damning-and-a-warning-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams To Skip Voting Rights Speech By Biden: \u2018This Is Pretty Damning And A Warning Sign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fstacey-abrams-to-skip-voting-rights-speech-by-biden-this-is-pretty-damning-and-a-warning-sign%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=1207434&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--><p>Failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will not attend a speech on Tuesday by Democrat President Joe Biden on voting rights, which is the top issue that she cares about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbrams welcomed today\u2019s visit from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on social media, but she won\u2019t be with them when they speak in Atlanta today. The Democratic candidate for governor cited a scheduling conflict for not being there,\u201d The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/the-jolt-stacey-abrams-wont-be-with-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-in-atlanta-today\/4MHFS3BTOJCPVMMCISG3LFHEX4\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSeveral voting rights groups also won\u2019t attend, after saying separately they\u2019ll boycott the Biden-Harris trip promoting voting rights in Atlanta on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not attending the event, Abrams put out a tweet welcoming Biden, writing: \u201cThe fight for voting rights takes persistence. As MLK exhorted, \u2018The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now before it is too late.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, @POTUS, for refusing to relent until the work is finished,\u201d she added. \u201cWelcome back to Georgia where we get good done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notable responses to the news included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Murtaugh<\/strong>, former Trump campaign spokesman: \u201cThis is an incredible snub of both Biden and Harris, who will be in the capital city of Stacey Abrams\u2019 own state to talk about her signature issue. Somehow she can\u2019t find the time to be there. Gives you an idea of how politically toxic Joe Biden really is.\u201d<strong>Erick Erickson<\/strong>, radio host: \u201cThis is pretty damning and a warning sign Warnock has problems if Abrams won\u2019t show up to be with Biden in Georgia *after* Abrams has already said she\u2019s running in 2022. Distancing from the sitting President in an election year is always a bad sign.\u201d<strong>Jesse Hunt<\/strong>, Republican Governors Association Communications Director: \u201cTo be fair to Joe Biden\u2026it\u2019s actually really hard to get Stacey Abrams to make appearances in GA. Nationwide tours and talk show couches are a better bet.\u201d<strong>Ben Williamson<\/strong>, former White House adviser: \u201cThere\u2019s bad, and then there\u2019s \u2018Gubernatorial candidate in a state you carried cancels on you\u2019 bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, some major voting rights groups have expressed opposition to Biden\u2019s visit and are making a point of not attending the event. They are even calling for the president to remain in Washington, D.C., unless he has a plan to reform the&nbsp;Senate filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation,\u201d Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-activists-skip-major-joe-biden-speech-elections-1667855\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAmong the groups planning to skip the event are the Asian American Advocacy Fund, Black Voters Matter, GALEO Impact Fund Inc. and New Georgia Project Action Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need even more photo ops,\u201d Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told CNN this week. \u201cWe need action, and that action is in the form of the John Lewis&nbsp;Voting Rights [Advancement] Act as well as the Freedom to Vote Act, and we need that immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bare-shelves-biden-trends-near-top-of-twitter-as-users-highlight-supply-chain-crisis-apocalypse-now\">\u2018Bare Shelves Biden\u2019 Trends Near Top Of Twitter As Users Highlight Supply Chain Crisis: \u2018Apocalypse Now\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will not attend a speech on Tuesday by Democrat President Joe Biden on voting rights, which is the top issue that she cares about. \u201cAbrams welcomed today\u2019s visit from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on social media, but she won\u2019t be with them when they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"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-1207434","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\/1207434","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207434\/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=1207434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}