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Abrams and Warnock need rural Black voters to turnout again – NPR

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022.

ALBANY, Ga. Johnnie Armstrong says he has voted in Albany since 1955, so he remembers an era when local officials tried to keep Black voters like him from the ballot box.

"They'd give you a bottle, a big thing with a lot of marbles in it," he says. "You guess how many marbles, then you can vote."

Armstrong says it felt remarkable that about 65 years later he got to help elect Georgia's first Black U.S. senator, Democrat Raphael Warnock.

Even better, Armstrong says, is Warnock spending a muggy August morning taking selfies with voters on Albany's Ray Charles Plaza as he campaigns for a full term in Washington.

Until recently, a statewide candidate spending significant time in this thinly populated, substantially Black, southwest corner of Georgia was virtually unheard of.

Johnnie Armstrong, sitting in front of the Ray Charles Memorial on Aug. 29, 2022, says he has voted in Albany, Ga., since 1955. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Johnnie Armstrong, sitting in front of the Ray Charles Memorial on Aug. 29, 2022, says he has voted in Albany, Ga., since 1955.

For years, Democrats failed to win statewide in Georgia. The ground began to shift about four years ago when Stacey Abrams made her first bid for governor.

"Atlanta cannot live without Albany, and Albany cannot live without the investments that come from Atlanta," Abrams said in 2017, launching her campaign, not in Atlanta, but in Albany. "We need to talk to those forgotten voters, the ones who are rarely talked about. I am running for governor because we need a governor who comes from a town like Albany. Where we begin does not dictate what we become."

Instead of bending over backward to court more conservative voters, Abrams focused on activating non-voters and irregular voters, especially people of color in overlooked parts of the state.

"I know everybody looks at Atlanta as the African American mecca," says Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young. "But if you follow this blue wave in Georgia, it came right through Albany down into Southwest Georgia. We need to hold the ground that we've gained."

Abrams' strategy got her within 55,000 votes of the governor's mansion in 2018, losing to Republican Brian Kemp. Two years later, it helped deliver Georgia for Joe Biden and flip two Senate seats, giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.

Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young outside of Sen. Warnock's campaign bus on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young outside of Sen. Warnock's campaign bus on Aug. 29, 2022.

Young is glad candidates come to Southwest Georgia now, but he says they also need to deliver on their promises for a region that's not benefited as much from the state's economic growth.

"With the pandemic, it ripped wide open the disparities we knew were already there," he says.

Roughly a quarter of Southwest Georgians live below the poverty line, nearly double the rate in the U.S. For a time, Albany had the country's worst per-capita death rate from COVID.

After several grueling election cycles, many voters are tired and organizers are trying to combat that.

On a drizzly Monday, Shayla Jackson, an Albany native with the nonpartisan New Georgia Project, canvasses a block of small homes, where backyard chickens roam freely. After striking out at a dozen or so addresses, Lavasha Hooks opens her door for Jackson, with a toddler hiding behind her legs.

Hooks says the economy, racial justice and the pandemic are all on her mind. She plans to vote but she hasn't thought much about the midterms yet. She says she doesn't think politicians have done much to improve life in her corner of Georgia.

"The wages are too low in my current job," Hooks says. "And everything is more expensive."

Jackson walks Hooks through finding her polling location and asks if she will need a ride to the polls. The New Georgia Project, which does not canvas for candidates or parties, was founded by Abrams in 2014 as part of her strategy to expand Georgia's electorate. Abrams is no longer affiliated with the organization.

Shayla Jackson, an organizer with the New Georgia Project, canvasses on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Shayla Jackson, an organizer with the New Georgia Project, canvasses on Aug. 29, 2022.

More than 50,000 people have registered in Southwest Georgia since 2018. The majority are non-white, the New Georgia Project says.

"Look, for the most part, the rural characterization is true," says Dante Chinni, a researcher with the American Communities Project who has studied rural African American counties in the South. "Rural America tends to vote for Trump, tends to be Republican. But when you divide the vote further, you see these subtleties and nuances."

Nearly a quarter of rural Americans were people of color in 2020, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. And while the country's rural population is shrinking overall, its diversity is growing.

Still, the biggest shifts from red to blue in 2020 were in the suburbs of metro Atlanta, where newcomers have poured in from out of state and where then-President Donald Trump repelled many moderate voters.

And even while Democrats in racially diverse rural communities in the South turned out more voters in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016, turnout for Trump soared even more in these same counties, driven by white, rural voters.

"This is a both/and strategy. I think some people want to use it as an either/or," says Andra Gillespie, a professor of political science at Emory University.

"Even though Democrats expect to lose in rural parts of the state, they can't underperform there. Because if they underperform there, they end up losing the election."

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, during a "One Georgia Tour" campaign event in Atlanta on March 14, 2022. Abrams also campaigned in Cuthbert that day. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, during a "One Georgia Tour" campaign event in Atlanta on March 14, 2022. Abrams also campaigned in Cuthbert that day.

Outside Albany, city blocks give way to acres of cotton and peanut crops. An hour up US-82 is the town of Cuthbert, Ga.

Its only hospital closed a few years ago.

"When the hospital closed, it became like a sudden death to us," says Rhonda Jones-Johnson, who used to work as a nurse there. "It broke some of our lives."

This spring, Jones-Johnson spoke alongside Abrams, who held her first formal campaign stop in front of the shuttered hospital. At the event, Jones-Johnson described how her aunt died waiting to access care.

"We had only one ambulance in the county," Jones-Johnson said. "No emergency care. If only we had a hospital open here, I truly believe her life could have been saved."

Both parties are trying to convince voters far from metro Atlanta that they're listening. Republicans, like Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate candidate Herschel Walker, are regularly barnstorming whiter rural counties, rallying their most reliable voters.

Democrats hope to slice into the GOP's margins, particularly in racially diverse rural counties. Warnock has emphasized the plight of rural Black farmers. Abrams prominently highlights rural hospital closures as she pitches her plan to expand Medicaid.

Women listen as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks in Americus, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Women listen as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks in Americus, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022.

Youth organizer Maggie Bell appreciates the specific challenges this region faces. She also says the rural South is more diverse and vibrant than outsiders may imagine.

Bell graduated in the spring from Albany State University, a historically Black college.

"When people think of rural voters, they think of farmers, white people," Bell says, as Albany State's Marching Rams band parades by. "But really, there are Black people down here Black people who want to be part of the election process, but they don't get a knock at their door."

Bell feels the weight of history in Albany, too. In 1961, Black residents in Albany launched what's considered the country's first mass civil rights movement to desegregate an entire city.

Bell says she's optimistic about what can happen as voters in this stretch of Georgia harness their power. And she says campaigns in other states should take note, as Democrats nationwide have struggled to win rural voters.

"Pay attention to these counties," she says. "Because once you engage and mobilize Black and brown people in these counties, you will actually see your work come to fruition."

This fall will be another test. Two months out, Abrams is trailing Kemp in polls. Warnock is slightly ahead of Walker in averages.

Supports cheer for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock outside his campaign bus in Americus, Ga. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Supports cheer for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock outside his campaign bus in Americus, Ga.

Both races are extremely tight.

On Election Night, cable TV anchors will spend a lot of time zooming in on their touch-screen maps on metro Atlanta, picking apart the returns from counties like Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett and DeKalb.

But Bell still believes organizers have to work for every vote, especially in counties like hers, and especially in a state where election outcomes have become famously close.

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Democrats feel pressure to save the republic in campaigns to run state election systems – Georgia Recorder

Adrian Fontes is tired of responding to the outrageous claims of Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed Republican election denier with ties to QAnon. Fontes faces Finchem on the ballot this year for Arizona secretary of state.

Finchem has said that if elected the states chief election official, he would ban early voting, move away from electronic vote counting, and allow state legislators to be able to reject election results. But hes offered little rationale or explanation for his extreme proposals.

He needs to explain himself and hes not doing it, Fontes said. All he does is throw out these crazy theories, these crazy ideas, and nobody is asking him why.

Much of Fontes frustration stems from the fact that he is not running in a typical race for Arizonas top election official. Finchem isnt a traditional Republican who might propose restrictions on voting, but would come to the campaign with explanations for why he believes his policies would protect the integrity of elections.

Instead, Fontes is running against someone who has said without evidence that the 2020 election was rigged and whomarched on the U.S. Capitolon Jan. 6.

Election deniers are running for secretary of state in five critical states across the country, and the Democrats challenging them in November say their campaigns have taken on increased importance.

As Fontes put it, Its a great deal of pressure knowing youre running in a political contest to save the republic.

The stakes are just as high in Nevada, where Democrat Cisco Aguilar is looking to defeat Jim Marchant, an election denier who has parroted former President Donald Trumps voter fraud conspiracies. In Michigan, New Mexico, and Minnesota, incumbent Democratic secretaries of state are seeking reelection against GOP candidates who have said that the 2020 election was not legitimate.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat who chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, said the Democratic candidates are feeling pressure to defeat big lie candidates who support Trumpthose who will suppress the vote, destabilize elections, and push out further lies.

The association has given unprecedented levels of support to candidates this year, due to the high stakes. Before she became chair in 2019, the group had never had any full-time staff and now it employs six people. Its alsoraisedclose to $20 million so far this cycle compared to a previous all-time high of $1.6 million, according to Griswold.

Were doing everything in our power to save democratic institutions, she said.

We have Democratic nominees across the country who will stand up for the fundamental right to vote for every eligible Republican, Democratic, and unaffiliated voter, and were up against people who are telling us that they will tilt elections away from the American people for their own political, partisan gain.

Heres a closer look at how two Democrats are running against election deniers who want to control elections:

Fontes, the Maricopa County recorder from 2017 through 2021, won the Democratic primary in August with more than 52% of the vote. As county recorder in Arizonas most populous county, Fontes enacted significant changesto how Maricopa County runs elections, increasing the number of registered voters by almost 500,000 and setting records in 2020 for the number of early ballots cast.

In 2020, nearly 92% of Maricopa County voters sent in an early ballot.

Though he lost his bid for reelection, Fontes said he would bring some of the lessons he learned as recorder to the secretary of states office.

Im just a county election official who knows how to do this stuff and would be best suited to be Arizonas next secretary of state, he said.

Fontes said hes not pleased that Finchem has drawn so much attention to their race by spewing falsehoods about the election system and proposing radical changes to voting procedures.

Banning ballot by mail when 92% of our voters used it in 2020 and 88% of primary voters, including almost that many Republican primary voters? Its a stupid idea, he said. I mean these are the people who actually vote, and he wants to force them to stand in line? Come on. Thats just dumb. If that isnt clear evidence of poor judgment, I dont know what is.

Finchem has alsocalled for Fontes arrestfor rigging the 2020 election, a contest in which Fontes himself lost reelection. What would the probable cause be? Fontes asked. He needs to explain himself.

Fontes also worries what the future for election administration looks like if those with experience doing the job are pushed away because of threats and harassment and are replaced with people like Finchem who have no experience in elections.

Theres an active campaign to gut election professionals out of the system by the very people who have no justification for doing it in the first place, he said. Theres a systemic brain drain thats happening all across the United States of America.

Cisco Aguilar ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Nevada secretary of state and will face Jim Marchant, a former state lawmaker, in November. Aguilar is an attorney who has worked for former Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and served on the Nevada Athletic Commission.

His first foray into electoral politics has not been an easy one. Aguilar said he lays awake at night worrying about the future of Nevadas elections, given how much is at stake if he were to lose.

This is not a campaign where youre looking at a typical Democratic platform or a Republican platform, he said. What youre looking at is the future of Nevada.

Marchant, like Finchem, has ties to QAnon and continues to claim that Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election. He also said he would not have certified the election had he been secretary of state at the time.

Marchant has said that if elected, he would get rid of electronic voting machines, vote by mail, and early voting, and would replace electronic vote tabulators with hand counting of paper ballots.

What hes doing is irresponsible and dangerous, Aguilar said. Hes not a serious leader but the threat he represents is extremely serious.

Aguilar takes particular issue with Marchants desire to eliminate early voting, given the makeup of Nevada voters.

We are a 24/7 economy, he said. When you ask somebody to try to limit their opportunity to vote to a single Tuesday in November between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., thats a working shift for many people.

Aguilars campaign has seen an influx in money from both Nevadans and people outside the state concerned about what could happen if Nevada, likely to be a battleground in 2024, has an elections director who believes Trumps big lie he said.

Despite having no primary challengers, Aguilarraised more than $450,000during the second quarter of this year and reported having significantly more cash available than Marchant.

People understand the severity of this campaign, he said. We have to make sure our elections are secure because not only could we hurt Nevada, we could potentially impact the entire country.

Thats what keeps me up at night, he added. We cannot allow somebody to put their finger on the scale for the benefit of him and some other individual at the cost of every citizen in the country.

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Democrats Scramble to Win Back Latino Support Ahead of Midterms – AMAC

AMAC Exclusive By Andrew Abbott

As the midterms race closer, Republicans appear to be continuing to gain traction with Latino voters, a key constituency in winning control of Congress in 2022. While Democrats initially denied that such a demographic shift was even taking place, they are now in a desperate scramble to salvage their support among Hispanics.

Perhaps the clearest indicator of Democrats struggles with Hispanics has been President Joe Bidens performance with the group. Though Biden won Hispanics 59%-38% in 2020, that represented a net 17-point decline from Hillary Clintons 66%-28% margin in 2016. Moreover, Bidens approval rating with Hispanics is now hovering below 30%, one of his most dismal ratings among any demographic.

A number of polls over the past several months have also found Democrats only slightly ahead of Republicans in terms of support among Hispanic Americans, a dramatic shift after decades of Democratic candidates reliably earning anywhere from 60-80% of the Latino vote. Though Republicans arent likely to win a majority of the Hispanic vote in 2022 or even 2024, narrowing the gap to within a few points over just a few years is a drastic change given that such shifts often take decades to occur.

One big reason for Republican gains among Latino voters has been the rise of strong Latino candidates in dozens of races throughout the country. In a Texas border district earlier this year, Republican Mayra Flores, a Mexican immigrant, shocked the political world by flipping a U.S. House District that had been held by a Democrat for more than 100 years. In Virginia, Yesli Vega, the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, is another potential rising star within the party. Many of these candidates have powerful personal stories of overcoming adversity, and their message of preserving economic opportunity and traditional family values for future generations has resonated with voters of all backgrounds.

Republicans are also increasingly talking to Latino voters about issues that matter most to them in particular, the economy. Hispanic Americans consistently rank inflation as their top issue heading into November, an ominous sign for Democrats.

Crime has also continued to be a major concern for Latinos, particularly in the wake of the BLM and Antifa riots of 2020. Latino communities and businesses were some of the hardest hit by the wave of violence that swept through dozens of U.S. cities two summers ago. Some were explicitly threatened by BLM activists. In June 2020, for example, a group of more than 20 businesses in Louisville, Kentucky, many of them Latino-owned, were sent a series of demands ordering them to employ at least 23 percent black staff, buy at least 23 percent of their inventory from black retailers, or make a recurring donation of 1.5 percent of their net sales to a local black charity, lest they be targeted by rioters. One Cuban immigrant and small business owner named Fernando Martinez who spoke out against the intimidation tactic made signs stating, We left Cuba because of socialism. Be careful what you wish for.

A key test of Republicans newfound strength with Latino voters will be in Nevada, where the seat of incumbent Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto ironically the only Hispanic woman in the Senate is a top GOP target. Latinos comprise nearly 20% of the Nevada electorate, or just above the national average of 19%. Cortez-Masto will likely need to win the Hispanic vote by around a 2-1 margin to stave off Republican challenger Adam Laxalt. While Cortez-Masto currently holds a 3-4 point lead in polling, a wave of disaffected Latinos could hand the race and perhaps control of the Senate to Republicans this fall.

Clearly concerned about a decline in support among Hispanic voters, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last month announced a six-figure outreach effort aimed at shoring up the Latino vote in November. The campaign, our Lucha or our struggle, is built around a series of YouTube videos that will unpack a variety of topics that matter to our communities.

However, the content of the outreach effort appears only to underscore further why Democrats are losing support with Hispanic voters. The actual videos released by the caucus come across as dismissive and demeaning, labeling conservative-minded Hispanics as crazy. One video asks, Do you have a superstition-loving Abuela or a crazy tio whos always saying crazy things about stuff he heard en la radio? So do we. So, lets talk about it. The videos and other Democratic outreach efforts to Latino voters also routinely use the Latinx label, something which a majority of Hispanic Americans have repeatedly said is out of touch and offensive.

Regardless of the outcome in November, Republicans standing with Latino voters looks stronger than it has in decades. By some estimates, if the GOP is even moderately successful in 2022, the number of Latino House Republicans will increase by 50%. This complicates not only Democrat attempts to hold onto this vital minority group, but also their efforts to dismiss their opponents as militant racists. As Republicans diversify, statistically speaking, Democrats are becoming whiter, more elite, and less connected to the American people than ever before.

Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.

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FACT SHEET: How Democrats Will Deliver for Abortion Access in Texas – Texas Democratic Party

In the United States, more state abortion restrictions were passed in 2021 than any other year since Roe v. Wade was decided. One of the most draconian of these was the SB8 inaptly named the Heartbeat Law, enacted by Texas Republicans.

Texas Republicans extreme abortion ban has no exception for rape or incest, and is designed to prevent doctors from being able to freely carry through with medical practices that are unquestionably in the best physical, mental, and emotional interest of the mother.

Furthermore, a record number of states have taken action to prevent many qualified family planning providers from participating in their Medicaid programs, undercutting access to a broad range of reproductive health care services including contraceptives and preventive care such as cancer screenings for low-income people.

With the Dobbs ruling, Americans can no longer rely on federal protections to protect their right to bodily autonomy, and for that reason state officials have outsized power compared to the previous decades.

Access to abortion is not only a fundamental matter of our right to privacy but also a matter of equity and personal and public health:

Policy Proposals from Beto ORourke for Governor:

All Texans deserve the freedom to make their own decisions about their own body, their own health care, and their own future. We deserve the freedom to decide if, when, and with whom to start a family.

Beto trusts Texas women to make their own health care decisions.

Abbotts eight years of attacks on reproductive freedom have shuttered womens health clinics across the state, making it harder and harder for women to receive a cervical cancer screening, maternal health checkup, or family planning help of any kind. On his watch, Texas ranks dead last in the nation for access to prenatal and maternal health care, which helps to explain how our statethe ninth largest economy on planet earthhas one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world.

In addition to using every tool available to repeal Abbotts dangerous abortion ban, Beto will veto any future legislation that seeks to further control women, including Republican proposals to limit access to contraception, prevent Texans from crossing state lines to seek reproductive care, and prosecute businesses that pay for employees to seek care in other states.

While strengthening investments in affordable contraception, cancer screenings, and other crucial family planning services, Beto will also support healthy babies and combat Texas maternal mortality crisis by expanding Medicaid and increasing pregnancy Medicaid eligibility to one-year postpartum.

Policy Proposals from Mike Collier for Lt. Governor and Rochelle Garza for Attorney General:

Mike Collier will fight to ensure that women and their doctorsnot politiciansmake decisions about their own healthcare.

As Lt. Governor, he will work to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into state law. He will put an end to the constant culture wars that have consumed our state government and pit Texan against Texan.

Indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Republicans showed with their lawsuit to block protections for women who are in a medical emergency that theyll stop at nothing to exert control over Texans and steamroll Texans with their extreme, far-right ideologies. This is not about being pro-life. This is about forcing birth, even if it will literally kill women.

As our next Attorney General, Rochelle Garza is committed to defending the rights of women and pregnant people whenever theyre threatened, and will not pursue litigation to implement Texas trigger law nor prosecute abortion providers, including doctors who provide life-saving treatment. In the words of Rochelle Garza: Abortion care is health care, and health care is a human right.

While extremist Republicans on the Supreme Court overruled Roe with Dobbs, President Biden signed an Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services. This Executive Order builds on the actions his Administration has already taken to defend reproductive rights by:

The Presidents Executive Order takes additional steps to protect patient privacy, including by addressing the transfer and sales of sensitive health-related data, combatting digital surveillance related to reproductive health care services, and protecting people seeking reproductive health care from inaccurate information, fraudulent schemes, or deceptive practices.

Issuing new guidance to address how the HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals protected health information, including information related to reproductive health care. The guidance helps ensure doctors and other medical providers and health plans know that, with limited exceptions, they are not required and in many cases, are not permitted to disclose patients private information, including to law enforcement.

The Attorney General will provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care.

While Texas Republicans at the state level stripped people of their reproductive autonomy and freedom, Democrats have delivered for abortion rights not just at the federal level, but also at the local level:

Austin City Council led the way with the GRACE (Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone) Act that essentially relegates abortion cases as the lowest level of priority by the Attorney General, thus rendering SB8 ineffective within the city.

Officials in Travis, Bexar, Nueces, Fort Bend, and Dallas Counties have sought out similar protections, as well as the cities of Houston, San Marcos, and Denton.

Travis County District Attorney Jos Garza has said his office would not prosecute crimes under the law. Enforcing this law will not only fail to promote or protect public safety but will also lead to more harm, he reiterated in a statement Thursday. Our office will continue to fight for and protect womens rights and use our discretion to avoid tragedy and preventable harm in our community.

San Marcos City Council Member Maxfield Baker said San Marcos Police Departments directive is comparable to Austins GRACE Act. Everything is so new that our community members are afraid. They dont know whether or not police officers are going to pursue this or where its going to land on their priority list, Baker said. I want to send the right message to our community that we have their backs, were looking out for them and that we share some of these concerns because were still in these uncertain times.

Having Democrats in positions of power at city, county, state, and federal levels all serve as backstops to either circumvent or overrule the horrifying agenda of anti-abortion advocates in order to give bodily autonomy and the right to medical privacy back to Texans.

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Democrats are tactically ignoring the rule of the law: Rep. Byron Donalds – Fox News

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During an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Saturday, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., denounced President Biden for his divisive speech on Thursday evening, arguing that it is "incumbent" for Republicans to fight for the "soul" of America this November.

REP. BYRON DONALDS: He's only doing this because he knows he did a terrible, stupid thing. That speech was dumb. They shouldn't have ever done it. The imagery was bad, but the words and the destruction to the country was far worse. Look, somebody should remind Joe Biden that the issue he has right now with his approval numbers is that you have Independents and also some Democrats who don't agree with how he's doing his job. This president has ignored the rule of law at the southern border. This president is forgiving anywhere from $300 billion to $1 trillion in student loans where he has no legal authority to do this. This president signed off on an Inflation Reduction Act where he and his party lied because it's really about the Green New Deal and climate change.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on what he calls the "continued battle for the Soul of the Nation" in front of Independence Hall at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, U.S., September 1, 2022. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo)

But they couldn't get that through if they told the truth, so they lied to the American people. Those are threats to the democracy as well. But last thing for Joe Biden. It's incumbent now for Republicans, whether you're a MAGA Republican, mainstream Republican, whatever the classifications are, or frankly, any American to actually fight for the soul of America. It's a fight for the soul of the republic, because we do not believe in just ignoring the rule of law when it suits your interests. And we definitely don't believe in either packing or unwinding the Supreme Court because we did not get our way. That's what Joe Biden believes. That's what Raphael Warnock believes. That's what Katherine Masto in Nevada believes. Mark Kelly in Arizona believes. Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire believes. They believe that stuff. They will vote for that stuff. They will do that stuff.

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