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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rubicon, Brian Beutler talks to FiveThirtyEight senior writer Perry Bacon about the wave of voter suppression laws that are hitting states like Georgia - and what President Biden and the Department of Justice can do about it. They also talk about the biggest threats to HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act - looking beyond the filibuster to other ways Republicans are preparing to fight those bills—in both the court of public opinion and the regular kind. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/rubicon.

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0:00.0

Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, at

0:10.7

77 years old.

0:12.5

I believe the whole country just took a sigh of relief.

0:15.9

Every home, every home, they did it, they did it, we won, every home, the USA.

0:22.9

John Ossof, the Democrat of candidate in Georgia, he is defeating David Perdue, the Republican

0:28.2

candidate.

0:29.2

Earlier, we projected that the Democrat Raphael Warnock will beat Kelly Lefler, so the Democrats

0:34.9

will be in the majority, the Republican.

0:37.2

When Democrats won the 2020 election, a fight over voting rights, democracy reform, became

0:44.0

inevitable.

0:46.3

Donald Trump exposed and underscored all kinds of undemocratic aspects of America's system

0:50.9

of government, voter suppression, corruption, disenfranchisement.

0:57.6

Trump is in gerrymandering, the electrocollege, the rules and structure of the US Senate.

1:04.9

But the imperative to short democracy wasn't faded to be the kind of emergency Democrats

1:08.9

face today, just weeks into Joe Biden's presidency.

1:14.0

Republicans could have accepted the results of the election gracefully, and overseen a peaceful

1:18.0

transition of power.

1:20.7

They could have responded to defeat by retooling their agenda to appeal to a majority of voters.

1:28.4

They went to war against free and fair elections themselves.

1:31.8

Nine new election bills were introduced in the State Senate today, all of them coming

1:36.4

from Republicans.

1:37.7

Those leaders wanting to restrict absentee ballots and curb voter registration among other

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