In visit to Philadelphia, Biden pushing for stalled voting rights law
Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, under pressure from civil rights leaders, travels to Philadelphia on Tuesday to issue a strong appeal for sweeping voting rights legislation that is stalled in Congress due largely to Republican opposition.
About a dozen Republican-controlled states have approved laws that either restrict voting or change election rules in response to Republican then-President Donald Trump's baseless claims that voter fraud prevented him from winning the 2020 presidential election.
While Biden's voting rights legislation faces an uphill battle in Congress, his focus on it allows him to...