Biden heralds midterm elections as 'rejection' of 'extremism' undermining democracy

Naomi Lim

March 29, 12:43 PM March 29, 12:43 PM

President Joe Biden alluded to former President Donald Trump's 2020 election challenges during an address delivered as co-host of his second Summit for Democracy.

Biden underscored last year's midterm elections as "free, fair, and secure," demonstrating the "resilience" of the country's democracy after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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"Voters resoundingly and roundly rejected the voices of extremism attacking and undermining our democracy," he told the virtual summit on Wednesday from the White House. “Our job is to keep building on our progress so we don’t start heading in the wrong direction again."

Biden cited the bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act as one instance in which he is ensuring "elections continue to reflect the will of the American people and protect the peaceful transfer of power."

"We're going to keep working to further strengthen protections by working to pass what we call the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act," he said.

Biden's remarks at the summit, the inaugural event of which was last year, were attended virtually by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in addition to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera, Moldovan President Maia Sandu, Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, and Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova. Egypt, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Turkey were not invited to participate.

“We're committed to supporting democratic institutions, human rights, rule of law, media freedom," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters this week. "So decisions around whether to add countries to the summit invitation were made with all these themes in mind. Those that were newly invited in 2023 demonstrated clear political will to bolster the themes of the summit.”

Biden opened his speech Wednesday by apologizing for his raspy voice, a symptom of a head cold.

"That's the only thing that's happening to me these days," he said.

Look at: Pleasure Behar claims voting rights are remaining stripped from black persons

Julia Johnson

June 20, 12:56 PM June 20, 12:56 PM

On a specific Juneteenth episode of The Watch Monday, host Pleasure Behar advised viewers that the black local community is getting rid of its suitable to vote.

"We need to be knowledgeable on a working day like this that voting rights are getting systematically taken away from African Us residents and other folks far too in this state," reported Behar. "It's a fantastic working day to reflect on that, I assume."

Behar did not issue to any procedures, nor did she elaborate on how or why citizens are dropping the suitable to vote.

Host Whoopi Goldberg chimed in to assert that becoming black, Asian, Latino, or "nearly anything other than what persons are anticipating to see in The united states" is "challenging."

"I come to feel that we are seeing this kind of rollback of heritage," fellow host Sunny Hostin afterwards explained.

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"Be very vigilant when you're hearing about [critical race theory], alleged CRT in your educational facilities. Struggle that," she instructed the audience. "You have to make confident that previous does not turn into prologue."

When civil legal rights law firm Ben Crump, identified for symbolizing the people of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake, was requested about the push versus important race idea, he claimed, “It is basically asinine” and “so terrifying.”

In accordance to Crump, all those who are against the principle are “trying to prevent the younger folks from learning.”

Crump is now symbolizing many family members of victims from the racially inspired mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery retail outlet in May perhaps.

The legal professional explained the shooter is not the only 1 he needs to maintain accountable. “He had a lot of accomplices,” he claimed.

Crump told viewers that The usa requirements to “hold accountable individuals who curate the detest.” He included that tv hosts, those people who promote detest on the net, gun brands, and gun retailers are all to blame as well.

At 1 level, the hosts talked over on the web criticism, which Anna Navarro dismissed as remaining unfold by "Russian bots" that she reported were "especially active all through the Trump administration."

The hosts decried the criticism that has arisen with the increase of social media, in particular.