anything. it s been a long time since the covid relief bill passed. how do you think democrats are doing overall? look, the threat to our democracy, on voting, is enormous. this one is existential. we have to fight back against republicans cutting out people from being able to vote and cutting out the effectiveness of their vote. remember we keep talking about this, the voting package. it s not only about access to the polls. it s about things like banning gerrymandering and getting that under control. it s about exposing dark money and trying to squeeze it out of elections. it s about anticorruption and conflicts of interest. so, there s a lot there that s about protecting our democracy. always remember first the good part, and that is we had h.r.1
i think there s also some consternation about how long it s been that these infrastructure talks have been going without any signs that we re moving towards passing anything. it s been a long time since the covid relief bill passed. how do you think democrats are doing overall? look, the threat to our democracy, on voting, is enormous. this one is existential. we have to fight back against republicans cutting out people from being able to vote and cutting out the effectiveness of their vote. remember we keep talking about this, the voting package. it s not only about access to the polls. it s about things like banning gerrymandering and getting that under control. it s about exposing dark money and trying to squeeze it out of elections. it s about anticorruption and conflicts of interest. so, there s a lot there that s about protecting our democracy.
on voting is enormous. this one is existential. we have to fight back against republicans cutting out people from being able to vote. and cutting out the effectiveness of their vote. remember, we keep talking about the voting package, it s not only about access to the polls, it s about access to things things like banning things like gerrymandering and getting that under control. it s about exposing dark money and trying to squeeze it out of elections. it s about anti-corruption and conflicts of interest. so, there s a lot there that is about protecting our democracy. always remember first, the good part. and that is, we had hr1 that passed the house. but the time it got to the senate, the republicans had figured out more ways to suppress the vote and to keep people from democracy from
to have. it s also important to look at new york city s mayor race to see what an important issue this is, because the top issue, whether it s in the wpix poll or the other new york city polls is safety, public safety. figuring out how do we move forward, how do we make streets in new york city safer, but also as erin said, how do we get both sides together and move fast false choices that too often this debate seems to be framed by? all right. we want to move to texas now, where democrats blocked the republican push to overhaul voting in the state, at least for now. texas democrats successfully stopped the passage of the senate bill 7, a voting package that would have made texas one of the most strict states in the country when it comes to casting a ballot. nearly every democrat walked out of the house chamber overnight,
if you could update us on as soon as the supreme court ruling came down we started getting word out of north carolina that the voter i.d. bill had sort of been stalled, had sort of been in a holding pattern waiting for the ruling that the republican legislature was ready to rule on this and other restrictions as well and i guess the republicans in the state senate are saying next week they ll unveil a comprehensive sort of voting package. can you tell us what s expected to be in that and what s expected to happen with it? we think it will be next week. they ve had a lot of things on their plate including sort of unexpected abortion bill that came up. but, yeah, they re expected to do a voter i.d. bill, which we re not really sure how comprehensive it ll be but it s going to be part of an omni bug election bill with some of the other things you re talking about early voting probably and so the senate is going to come out with that then it would be go to the house so it could be, you