Psaki Calls Republican Election Integrity Laws ‘The Worst Challenge To Our Democracy Since The Civil War’

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that laws designed to increase election integrity and security represent “the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.”

Psaki made the remarks when asked by a reporter at the White House press briefing about what the administration’s strategy was to combat efforts by Republican lawmakers around to secure elections.

“He’ll lay out the moral case for why denying the right to vote is a form of suppression and a form of silencing and how he will use, he will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental rights of Americans to vote against the onslaught of voter suppression laws,” Psaki claimed, adding that Biden would highlight that the last election was certified after judges threw out multiple lawsuits.

“He’ll also decry efforts to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-American and stand up against the notion that politicians should be allowed to choose their voters or to subvert our system by replacing independent election authorities with partisan ones,” Psaki claimed. “And he will highlight the work of the administration against this, the necessity of passing the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout and voter education system to overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.”

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.@PressSec says the “onslaught of voter suppression laws” in red states are “the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.” pic.twitter.com/k1wzq3GWjv

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 12, 2021

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