President Joe Biden’s list of failures has grown so long that all he and Democrats can talk about is voting reform, and that could be lost as an issue when Senate leaders push for a vote and likely rejection, according to key Republicans.
Hours before Biden was set to land in Georgia, Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Sen. Rick Scott, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, blasted the president’s plan to attack voting reform initiatives there.
McDaniel said that Georgia’s new voting rules make it easier to cast ballots than in Biden’s Delaware home, and Scott called the focus on attacking GOP voting reforms “crazy.”
But, he added, it is understandable since the president has bungled the rest of the Democratic agenda.
“They don’t have anything they can talk about,” said Scott of Florida.
“They don’t want to talk about the economy. They don’t want to talk about schools,” he said, adding, “They can’t talk about Afghanistan. They can’t talk about holding China accountable. They can’t talk about, look at Russia and what’s happening there with Ukraine. There’s nothing they can talk about. So maybe they think this is an issue that they can try to blow up and make it a big issue. But the public’s not dumb, they’re smart. This is just a complete lie.”
Biden shifted to the stalled Democratic voting reform legislation after his $2 trillion Build Back Better bill was shelved by opposition in his own party.
The White House picked Georgia to give a speech on voting reform because Republicans there pushed through changes that Democrats and the media have maligned as racist, even though they ease voting for minorities.
Biden was expected to appear with celebrated Democrat Stacey Abrams, now running for governor, but she unexpectedly found a schedule conflict to keep her from standing next to Biden.
McDaniel wasn’t buying that, suggesting that the president’s unpopularity was the reason. “It is very interesting that Stacey Abrams has a conflict and can’t join [Biden]. I think we all know what that conflict is: It is Joe Biden’s terrible poll numbers,” she said.
Biden’s approval rating is at his lowest point, and new 2024 polling shows him losing badly to former President Donald Trump. Biden’s failings reportedly played a role in Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s recent gubernatorial bid in Virginia.
