Georgia voting activists to skip Biden’s Atlanta address

Published January 10, 2022 12:00am ET



Georgia voting activists will not attend President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Atlanta remarks to push for federal voting legislation after warning the White House not to visit without a concrete plan for action.

Organizers from the Black Voters Matter Fund, the Asian American Advocacy Fund, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, and the GALEO Impact Action Fund, which represents Latinos, said in a Zoom call Monday that Biden and Harris should focus on making progress in Washington instead of performing sweeping gestures. Otherwise, they should skip the visit.

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