{"id":1362690,"date":"2022-03-07T13:44:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1362690"},"modified":"2022-03-07T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:45:28","slug":"kamala-harris-compares-republicans-to-brutal-alabama-troopers-on-bloody-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-compares-republicans-to-brutal-alabama-troopers-on-bloody-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Compares Republicans to Brutal Alabama Troopers on Bloody Sunday"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fkamala-harris-compares-republicans-to-brutal-alabama-troopers-on-bloody-sunday%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=1362690&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 class=\"subheading\">Vice President Kamala Harris commemorated the anniversary of \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d in Selma, Alabama, by comparing Republicans to the brutal state troopers that attacked black civil rights protesters.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, March 7, 1965, white Alabama state troopers brutally attacked civil rights activists in Selma as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a march for voting rights. According to Kamala Harris, Republicans passing voter ID laws (which black Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/23\/poll-majority-of-black-and-hispanic-voters-support-voter-id\/\">support<\/a>) and limiting mail-in voting are just like the actions of those troopers.<\/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>\u201cThose brave marches continued to push forward to secure the freedom to vote. And they were pushed back. Today we stand on this bridge at a different time. We again, however, find ourselves caught in between\u00a0injustice and justice, between disappointment and determination, still in a fight, to form a more perfect union,\u201d\u00a0she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/6\/harris-compares-republicans-1960s-alabama-state-tr\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_source=socialnetwork\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20127946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/wi\/ap\/05\/kamala-harris-selma-commemoration-vice-president-kamala-harris-speaks-at-an-event-celebrate-black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20127946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/kamala-harris-selma-commemoration-vice-president-kamala-harris-speaks-at-an-event-celebrate-black-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Vice President Kamala Harris will speak in Selma, Alabama, at an event marking the 57th anniversary of \u201cBloody Sunday,\u201d the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president recalled the record voter turnout during the 2020 election as a \u201ctriumph of democracy\u201d while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/03\/texas-sees-higher-voter-turnout-after-election-integrity-law\/\">ignoring<\/a> the fact that the state of Texas recently had high voter turnout despite the fact it passed one of the very laws she claims hinders voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA record number of people cast their ballots in the 2020 elections. It was a triumph of democracy in many ways. But not everyone saw it that way. Some saw it as a threat. And so as powerful people have done many times in our nation\u2019s history, they launched an assault on the freedom to vote,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/03\/texas-sees-higher-voter-turnout-after-election-integrity-law\/\">profiled<\/a>, the state of Texas saw a high voter turnout in the recent primary election, a fact that Democrats have overlooked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Texas\u2019s first in the nation primary election saw an increase in voter turnout Tuesday night, shattering the 2018 midterms following the passages of the Lone Star State\u2019s\u00a0Senate Bill 1 last year \u2014 the same\u00a0common-sense election integrity legislation that Democrats fought against,\u00a0claiming \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star State\u2019s Tuesday night primary election \u2014 the first major election since the state\u2019s\u00a0election integrity legislation was signed into law \u2014\u00a0ran smoothly as polling locations appeared not to have reported any negligible issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_13959457\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/07\/wi\/ap\/17\/obit-lewis-march-1965-file-photo-trooper-swings-billy-club-at-john-lewis-foreground-chairman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13959457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/obit-lewis-march-1965-file-photo-trooper-swings-billy-club-at-john-lewis-foreground-chairman-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"644\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this March 7, 1965, file photo, a state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, AL. (AP Photo\/File)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite this, the vice president charged that Senate Republicans are guilty of being like racist Alabama troopers for their refusal to pass the Democrats\u2019 much-criticized John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe brought the freedom to vote act, yes, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to the floor of the United States Senate,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd on the night of Jan. 19, every Republican senator in the United States Senate voted to block passage of this law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris commemorated the anniversary of \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d in Selma, Alabama, by comparing Republicans to the brutal state troopers that attacked black civil rights protesters. 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