What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

Someone already mentioned it, but this really reminds me of the RNC, in which the party not only sought to have a diverse array of speakers but also to position itself as the more racially liberal party in some ways. Scott just said that Republicans support making it easier to vote, and the speech has focused on race in a way that is quite different from the “color blind” rhetoric of the 1980s and 1990s.

Scott also talks more about voting rights that Biden did, correctly noting that large majorities of Americans support both early voting and voter ID. But then he disingenuously claims that the Georgia voting law actually expands voting opportunities just because it standardizes early-voting hours (ignoring the many other provisions of the bill, such as banning giving food and water to voters standing in line and preempting the authority of local election officials).

Well, I think it goes back, Lee, to what we were talking about earlier on “cancel culture” and how the GOP is using that as a strategy to attack Democrats for being too liberal. Scott seems to be focusing on that in his rebuttal.