{"id":392609,"date":"2022-01-11T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stacey-abrams-skipping-joe-bidens-speech-over-scheduling-issue\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:42:40","slug":"stacey-abrams-skipping-joe-bidens-speech-over-scheduling-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stacey-abrams-skipping-joe-bidens-speech-over-scheduling-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stacey Abrams skipping Joe Biden&#8217;s speech over &#8216;scheduling&#8217; issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Stacey Abrams skipping Joe Biden&#8217;s speech over &#8216;scheduling&#8217; issue<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>President Biden said Tuesday that Georgia\u2019s most famous advocate of federal election reform, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, is skipping Biden\u2019s Atlanta speech calling for Senate action due to a \u201cscheduling\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 absence avoids awkward optics for the president, who is expected to say Republican state election law changes are the result of former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbig lie\u201d that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud. Abrams lost Georgia\u2019s 2018 gubernatorial election to Republican Brian Kemp. <\/p>\n<p>However, like Trump, Abrams refused to concede, and claimed she was cheated.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is running for governor again this year. Her campaign and the White House did not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to The Post\u2019s request for details on the scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told reporters as he left the White House that \u201ceverything is fine\u201d between him and Abrams.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stacy-abrams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stacey Abrams.\" class=\"wp-image-20793352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stacy-abrams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stacy-abrams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/stacy-abrams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia again this year after losing the 2018 election to Republican Brian Kemp.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NAACP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Stacey this morning. We have a great relationship. We got our scheduling mixed up,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI talked with her at length this morning. We are all on the same page and everything is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris is joining Biden in Atlanta. Biden chose Harris as his running mate last year after <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/a32132819\/stacey-abrams-on-voting-rights-covid-19-and-being-vice-president\/\">Abrams openly lobbied <\/a>for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s remarks will reprise the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of his fiery Jan. 6 speech on the anniversary of the Capitol riot, in which the president claimed that \u201cin state after state, new laws are being written not to protect the vote, but to deny it \u2026 not to strengthen or protect our democracy, but because the former president lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_49.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden is expected to say Republican state election law changes are the result of former President Trump's &quot;big lie&quot; that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud.\" class=\"wp-image-20793685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_49.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_49.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_49.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden is expected to say Republican state election law changes are the result of former President Trump\u2019s \u201cbig lie\u201d that he lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Abrams refused to concede after losing the 2018 gubernatorial election by 1.4 percentage points. She\u00a0blamed her loss on Kemp\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fb011f39af3b40518b572c8cce6e906c\">purge of\u00a01.4 million\u00a0registered voters<\/a> in his role as Georgia\u2019s secretary of state and national Democrats rallied to her cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and faith, I cannot concede,\u201d Abrams said in 2018. \u201cI\u00a0will not concede because the erosion of our democracy is not right,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_44.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden greets Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens after arriving at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 11, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-20793662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_44.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_44.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_44.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden greets Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens after arriving at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 11, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Critics say Biden has misrepresented state laws that Republicans contend are meant to reduce the risk of voter fraud and to phase out COVID-19 pandemic policies that expanded remote voting.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, which endorsed Biden, awarded the president <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XHMRG\">\u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d<\/a> in April for falsely describing a new Georgia law\u2019s impact on voting hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the outrageous parts of this new state law, it ends voting hours early so working people can\u2019t cast their vote after their shift is over,\u201d Biden said, incorrectly describing the law\u2019s provisions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_46.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, on Jan. 11, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-20793690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_46.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_46.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/biden-atlanta_46.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, on Jan. 11, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Georgia law does not alter Election Day voting hours but expands early voting by adding a second mandatory Saturday. It affirms that counties can open for early voting on two Sundays and allows counties to extend early voting hours beyond normal business hours. Democrats oppose provisions that require a photo ID to get an absentee ballot, shorten the window of time to vote absentee and allow state officials to take over local election offices in response to alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is pushing a pair of base-rallying Democratic bills that are stalled in the evenly divided Senate due to Republican opposition and the qualms of centrist Democrats who don\u2019t want to lower the threshold to a simple majority to pass most bills from the usual 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bills, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would force certain states to gain federal approval to change election laws, responding to a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that reduced post-Civil Rights Era oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats also hope to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, which is a pared down version of the For the People Act that stalled last year. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Stacey-Abrams2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Stacey Abrams.\" class=\"wp-image-20793382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Stacey-Abrams2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Stacey-Abrams2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Stacey-Abrams2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Abrams refused to concede after losing the 2018 gubernatorial election by 1.4 percentage points and claimed she was cheated.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Eze Amos\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/2747\/text\">Freedom to Vote Act<\/a> would make Election Day a federal holiday, force states to allow no-excuse mail-in voting and require that most jurisdictions allow 10 hours per day of early voting for two weeks before an election, with smaller windows allowed in sparsely populated areas. <\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s mail-in voting provisions would bar states from imposing a signature verification policy or requiring that people who request a ballot first provide identification.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have floated a compromise where they would reduce the role of Congress in certifying the results of the Electoral College results, arguing it would in effect eliminate the possibility of another deadly riot aimed at reversing a presidential election outcome.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Biden\u2019s push for federal legislation is likely to amount to little if Senate centrists remain unswayed. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-NY) set a deadline of next Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to either pass the two bills in question or change the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most proposals.<\/p>\n<p>But a spokeswoman for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said last month that Sinema \u201ccontinues to support the Senate\u2019s 60-vote threshold, to protect the country from repeated radical reversals in federal policy which would cement uncertainty, deepen divisions, and further erode Americans\u2019 confidence in our government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) also supports keeping the upper chamber\u2019s 60-vote threshold for most non-budget legislation.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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