Democratic Leaders Are Betraying Black Voters
Democratic leaders have a plan for overcoming the Republican Party’s attempts to restrict the franchise: Just vote harder.
Civil-rights leaders expressed their frustrations to The New York Times last week, telling the outlet that “White House officials and close allies of the president have expressed confidence that it is possible to ‘out-organize voter suppression.’”
Following Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, Republican-led states have engaged in a , spurred on that Trump’s loss was the result of widespread voter fraud. Despite Republicans losing both houses of Congress and the White House during the Trump years, the former president’s relatively strong 2020 showing in order to pass voting-rights legislation by a simple majority. The position of Democratic leaders is perhaps less a plan than what they believe is their only course of action.
