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GEORGIA REPUBLICAN TROLLS BIDEN. President Biden has been remarkably stubborn in his refusal to back down from false claims about the Georgia voting law. Those falsities are of two types. The first the set of specific statements Biden has made about the law’s contents. He has said it shortens voting hours, which is not true. He has charged that it eliminates absentee ballots, which is not true. And he has said it forbids anyone from giving water to voters waiting in line, which is not true.
The second type of false statement is Biden’s general description of the law as “Jim Crow on steroids.” Anyone who knows anything about Jim Crow or the nation’s racial history knows that it is an absolutely insupportable claim. Yet Biden sticks to it. At White House press briefings, reporters have given spokeswoman Jen Psaki multiple opportunities to clean up the president’s mess, and she has declined to do so.
What now? One Georgia state lawmaker is resorting to trollery, which at this point might be the best way to answer the president’s rhetoric. Wes Cantrell, a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives, says he will introduce a bill that would rescind Georgia’s new election law and replace it with law identical to what is currently on the books in Biden’s home state of Delaware. Since Delaware’s law is far more restrictive than the new Georgia statute, it’s a move that would set Georgia back many years.
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In a Facebook post, Cantrell wrote that a new, Delaware-based Georgia law would have five key features. This is how he described them:
1. Instead of having up to 19 days of early voting in Georgia, we will have ZERO days of early voting JUST LIKE DELAWARE!
2. Instead of having no excuse absentee voting in Georgia, you will have to have the excuse of being sick or disabled to vote absentee JUST LIKE DELAWARE!
3. Instead of having plenty of secure drop boxes in Georgia, there will be no drop boxes JUST LIKE DELAWARE!
4. Instead of being able to get drink/food from a non-poll worker outside of the 150-foot buffer & drink from a poll worker within the barrier in Georgia, it will be illegal to receive anything of value while standing in line to vote JUST LIKE DELAWARE!
5. Instead of being able to vote in relative quiet in Georgia, your name will be announced outloud (and your party affiliation during a primary) so that your vote can be challenged by anyone in the precinct JUST LIKE DELAWARE!
In other words, the law governing elections in Georgia — the very law that is the subject of so much protest from President Biden and Democrats — would become much more restrictive if it were suddenly transformed into Delaware’s law. And yet somehow Biden describes Georgia’s law as “Jim Crow on steroids.”
Cantrell’s move is pure trolling, of course. Georgia is not going to change its law into Delaware’s. But Cantrell’s stunt marks the next stage of Republicans’ deadly serious effort to show the nation — and increasingly woke corporations — that the Georgia law is a reasonable response to the realities of today’s elections.
“I have some advice for President Biden,” Cantrell wrote. “Take care of your home state before you say a word about Georgia. People in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones. Either read the bill for yourself or at least get some advisors who will tell you the truth…Delaware’s voting laws are draconian when compared to Georgia…To use your favorite phrase, ‘C’mon, Man!'”
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