{"id":1208723,"date":"2022-01-11T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208723"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:06:07","slug":"white-house-tries-to-downplay-stacey-abramss-no-show-at-georgia-voting-rights-speech-all-on-the-same-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-tries-to-downplay-stacey-abramss-no-show-at-georgia-voting-rights-speech-all-on-the-same-page\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Tries To Downplay Stacey Abrams\u2019s No-Show At Georgia Voting Rights Speech: \u2018All On The Same Page\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\">36<\/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%2Fwhite-house-tries-to-downplay-stacey-abramss-no-show-at-georgia-voting-rights-speech-all-on-the-same-page%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=1208723&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>The White House tried to downplay reports that progressive voting rights advocate and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would not be in attendance at President Joe Biden\u2019s speech addressing voting rights in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Stacey this morning. We have a great relationship. We got our scheduling mixed up,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VXqMr2mpi4I\">told reporters<\/a> on the White House lawn Tuesday, shortly before departing for Georgia. \u201cWe\u2019re all on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden \u201chad a warm conversation\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/stacey-abrams\">Abrams<\/a> shortly before he left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe saw it as a continuation of the conversation they\u2019ve had for the last several years about their shared commitment to protecting the right to vote, to protecting democracy in this country,\u201d Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One, reports The Hill. \u201cAnd they agreed that it\u2019s important to continue to fight for this and continue moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams said Tuesday that a scheduling conflict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-to-skip-voting-rights-speech-by-biden-this-is-pretty-damning-and-a-warning-sign\">prevented her from attending<\/a> Biden\u2019s speeches on voting rights, which has been Abrams\u2019s signature issue since she rose to national prominence in the 2018 Georgia governor\u2019s race. The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>\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&nbsp;<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<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThank you, @POTUS, for refusing to relent until the work is finished,\u201d she added. \u201cWelcome back to Georgia where we get good done\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\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&nbsp;<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<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\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<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the boycotts of the speech by local voting rights groups, Biden is expected to be joined by civil rights advocates Martin Luther King III, son of the late civil rights champion Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife Arndrea Waters King.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/king-family-biden-voting-rights-speech-526873\">Politico<\/a> reported Tuesday that the King family described it as a \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to attend because of the frustration they shared with the groups boycotting. \u201cWe certainly understand the frustration of our local partners here in Georgia,\u201d Arndrea Waters King told MSNBC, according to Politico. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long year of a lot of things not being done, and we stand and we share that frustration.\u201d<\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House tried to downplay reports that progressive voting rights advocate and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would not be in attendance at President Joe Biden\u2019s speech addressing voting rights in Georgia. \u201cI spoke to Stacey this morning. We have a great relationship. We got our scheduling mixed up,\u201d Biden told reporters on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"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-1208723","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\/1208723","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208723\/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=1208723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}