President Biden will deliver a big speech on voting rights in Atlanta today. ed_kilgore writes that Biden is trying to reach three different audiences with the address
Biden’s audience in Georgia isn’t easy to discern. Photo: Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images As part of the Democrats’ big voting-rights push, which is expected to culminate in Senate votes on the Freedom to Vote Act, President Biden is traveling to Atlanta today for a big speech on the subject.
It adds to the emotional impact of the Biden-Harris visit to Atlanta that it will occur just as Atlanta is preparing for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on January 17. The president and vice-president will reportedly lay a wreath at Dr. King’s burial site and pay a visit to the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King’s most recent successor is Georgia’s new Democratic senator, Raphael Warnock.
But the law in question has united Georgia Republicans as has nothing else; even Trump’s No. 1 purge target, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, has enthusiastically endorsed it. So Biden needs to be sure-footed on this issue lest he sacrifice Democratic prospects in Georgia to some national intra-party maneuver.
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