Many organizations like the NAACP are directing their efforts to get people registered to vote; targeting underserved communities that lack specific resources to ensure voter registration.
so he s got january 6th and voting registration legislation, that s all he has left. howard: i want to get to that in a second, but let me pray a sound from karl rove on fox news sunday. he wrote a piece in the wall street journal saying republicans would have gone nuts if democrats had tried to block certification in a similar situation. here s what he had to say. look, republicans have to acknowledge that what happened on january 6th was atrocious and that the people who invaded the capitol, assaulted 140 police officers, every one of those people ought to be identified, prosecuted and found guilty, funnished. punished. howard: dick cheney was one of two republicans with his daughter on the house floor during the january 6th anniversary. does the press like these bush republicans who they attacked so frequently back when cheney was vice presidentsome.
remarks. well, i think mitch mcconnell completely misreads what the president was saying. the president was acknowledging, in fact, that across this country, even since the november 2020 election, dozens and dozens of laws have been passed around the states and many more being considered that will curtail the voting rights of americans. so i don t think the invocations that president biden made were extraordinary. i mean, we are facing a circumstance in this country where voting rights have been been repealed, where people are having, you know, the don t have the opportunity for mail-in voting, for absentee voting, for same-day voting registration. this is really outrageous and i think the president was calling all of us to action on behalf of democracy. so, you know, as much as mitch mcconnell waxed and waned on the
rights. automatic voting registration is not controversial. having dark money has closed some of the big donors. that s not terribly controversial. the key is to do something. the revolution may not come at once, but get something passed. that s what black voters are expecting. we want something we can hang our hats on and believe that the president and believe the democrats still have our best interests at heart. elise jordan and dechandra jefferson, thank you both for being with us. after the break, we ve all seen the negative headlines. i ll tell you why it s time for democrats to rise up and tell a new story about the biden presidency. and later, colorado secretary of state gina griswald joins me to discuss the latest lawsuit she s filed to protect democracy in her state. but first, my colleague richard
across the state nearly 40% so far in harris county overwhelmingly due to the new i.d. requirements, which voters need to write again in a space under the flap on the external ballot return envelope. there s so much confusion she s doubled staffing at phone banks. we got 8,000 calls in january alone, 5,000 of which were about mail ballot voting. reporter: texas is one of 19 states to pass restrictive voting registration in 2021 but before governor greg abbott signed senate bill 1 into law late last year, activists warned lawmakers about potential snares like i.d. match and complicated envelopes. the challenges we re seeing now are a feature of sb1 of the voting law. reporter: the secretary state s office telling cnn in a statement our office has been working as quickly and diligently as possible within a compressed time frame to provide guidance to election officials and voters on the voting process in texas. for gaskin the long journey is