{"id":548711,"date":"2021-06-01T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548711"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:50:32","slug":"biden-taps-kamala-harris-to-lead-administrations-voting-rights-efforts-as-democratic-hopes-fizzle-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-kamala-harris-to-lead-administrations-voting-rights-efforts-as-democratic-hopes-fizzle-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Administration\u2019s Voting Rights Efforts As Democratic Hopes Fizzle In Senate"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-taps-kamala-harris-to-lead-administrations-voting-rights-efforts-as-democratic-hopes-fizzle-in-senate%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=548711&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\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1318934049-scaled-e1621470164480.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to expand voting rights, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration announced Harris\u2019 appointment Tuesday while the president <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/biden-tulsa-race-massacre-oklahoma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was in Oklahoma<\/a> commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Harris now leads both the administration\u2019s voting rights efforts and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/harris-team-panicked-biden-immigration-border-mexico-illegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its response<\/a> to the ongoing crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"8.7020547945205\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Pres. Biden calls for June to be \u201ca month of action on Capitol Hill\u201d on voting rights bills, and says he will task Vice President Harris with helping to push them through Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aplTTgfnGg\">https:\/\/t.co\/aplTTgfnGg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G183opXJQG\">pic.twitter.com\/G183opXJQG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCWorldNews\/status\/1399837576702443524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking Vice President Harris to help these efforts and lead them, among her many other responsibilities,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWith her leadership, and your support, we\u2019re going to overcome again, I promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"16.379939209726\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Another assignment for VP Kamala Harris: voting rights<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking Vice President Harris to help these efforts and lead them, among her many other responsibilities,\u201d says Biden. \u201cWith her leadership, and your support, we\u2019re going to overcome again, I promise you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fran_chambers\/status\/1399832776787075076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris\u2019 office was ready with a statement detailing how she plans to advance voting rights, both through Congress and elsewhere. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/04\/abigail-spanberger-house-passes-legislation-justice-department-removal-social-media-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: House Passes Legislation That Enables The DOJ To Demand The Removal Of Social Media Posts Deemed Disinformation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Joe Biden asked me to help lead our Administration\u2019s effort to protect the fundamental right to vote for all Americans,\u201d Harris said in a statement to CNN. \u201cIn the days and weeks ahead, I will engage the American people, and I will work with voting rights organizations, community organizations, and the private sector to help strengthen and uplift efforts on voting rights nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"12.4\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cAnd we will also work with members of Congress to help advance these bills.The work ahead of us is to make voting accessible to all American voters, and to make sure every vote is counted through a free, fair, and transparent process. This is the work of democracy\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> stmt<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jasmine Wright (@JasJWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasJWright\/status\/1399830085520220173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic Party\u2019s agenda on voting rights centers around the S. 1 For The People Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that would mandate nationwide same-day registration, no-excuse absentee voting and anti-gerrymandering measures. It would also legalize ballot harvesting,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/04\/house-passed-hr-1-for-people-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among other things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the legislation has passed through the House in a party-line vote, it is unlikely to pass the Senate, where Republican senators universally oppose it and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona stand in the way of abolishing the filibuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to expand voting rights, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday.The Biden administration announced Harris\u2019 appointment Tuesday while the president was in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278835,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1318934049-scaled-e1621470164480.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Administration\u2019s Voting Rights Efforts As Democratic Hopes Fizzle In Senate","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1318934049-scaled-e1621470164480.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Lead Administration\u2019s Voting Rights Efforts As Democratic Hopes Fizzle In Senate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548711","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}