Biden to make 'passionate case' for voting rights during commencement address in South Carolina, Psaki says

President Joe Biden on Friday will make a "passionate case" for voting rights legislation that remains stalled in Congress due to Republican opposition when he delivers the commencement address at a historically Black university in South Carolina, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

The President will use his speech on Friday as an opportunity to "renew his call on Congress to protect the sacred right to vote, which is of course under attack from Republican officials across the country," Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One.

"You'll hear the President talk about the fact that Republican attacks across the country are not just on limiting who gets to vote but about changing who gets to count the vote and whose vote is counted. It's a sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion, which is un-American, un-Democratic but not unprecedented," Psaki said.