Biden decries Georgia’s new election bill: ‘This is Jim Crow in the 21st Century’

President Biden blasted Georgia’s newly-passed voting legislation as an “un-American law to deny people the right to vote.” 

The bill swiftly made its way through the Georgia legislature and was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday. The president said the Peach State had seen the "most historic demonstration of the power of the vote" in 2020, which saw record turnout in Georgia and a Democratic sweep of two Senate seats and the vote for the presidency.  "Instead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote. This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country, is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience," Biden said.