Headline Roundup • April 4th, 2021
Dueling Boycotts Face Off In Georgia Voting Law Battle
Voting Rights And Voter Fraud,Business,Corporations,Georgia,Donald Trump,Brian Kemp,Voter Suppression,Elections
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CNBC
U.S. corporations face growing pressure and threats of boycotts to publicly oppose Republican-backed election legislation in Georgia and other states that critics say harm the voting rights of Black Americans.
The opposition intensified on Friday when Major League Baseball announced it would no longer hold the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta this summer, with commissioner Robert Manfred saying the league “fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last week signed an election overhaul bill into law that adds...
Newsmax (News)
Former President Donald Trump has long denounced the "dirty" play of liberal activists pushing cancel culture against conservatives throughout society, but now says "it is finally time" for Republicans and conservatives to do the same and boycott woke businesses offended by the passage of election laws.
"For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement Saturday. "Now they are going big time with the...
NBC News Digital
Republicans and corporate America are on the outs.
In the past week alone, American Airlines and computer company Dell came out strongly against GOP-led bills that place restrictions on voting in their home base of Texas. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a rising star in Republican Party, continued to take heat for nixing a bill that would have imposed a ban on transgender athletes in sports, citing the potential impact on her state's bottom line. And conservatives spent days bashing "vaccine passports" some businesses think are needed to return to...
