Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., said on Tuesday that President Biden pushing a radical plan to overhaul elections is nothing but a “power grab.”
“This is nothing but a power grab to take the right at the constitutional authority of states to manage their own elections, and it’s a federal takeover of our elections,” Hice told “Fox & Friends First.”
Hice claimed the measure will “install the ability for Democrats to cheat in the elections at a time when states are doing everything they can to shore up election integrity.”
“The Democrats now are coming in trying to dismantle all of that. It is shameful. And of course, they’re coming to Georgia because Georgia is ground zero in this battle.”
STACEY ABRAMS WILL MISS BIDEN’S VOTING RIGHTS SPEECH IN GEORGIA
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to meet with the Democratic Caucus at the Capitol in Washington, early Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.
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Biden is headed to Georgia today to call for changes to filibuster rules to pass legislation, overhauling U.S. elections.
Biden will be in Georgia with Vice President Kamala Harris to make his pitch to the American people. They will visit Ebenezer Baptist Church and place a wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.
Biden said in an interview last month that he would support an exception to the Senate’s filibuster rule when it comes to the package that passed the Democrat-controlled House earlier this year but hit a roadblock in the Senate.
Getting rid of the filibuster rule would lower the typical 60-vote threshold for passage to 50. In the split 50-50 Senate, Harris can break a tie, allowing Democrats to push past Republicans.
With Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., essentially ending Biden’s chances to pass Build Back Better, the Democrats have pivoted to establishing a federal election framework, which Republicans say is little more than an “election takeover scheme.”
Like other Democrats, including Vice…
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