Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. scolded the “anti-democracy” social gathering for his or her controversial voting rights bill on Sunday, calling the legislation a political ploy to assist Democrats “cheat” in future elections.
“It is just about Democrats winning elections,” Scott advised host Trey Gowdy throughout an look on “Sunday Night in America.”
“If you look at the Democrat Party now, they are the ones that are anti-democracy, they talk about packing the Supreme Court. They don’t want you to show your I.D. to vote…and by the way, your signatures don’t have to match if you use mail-in voting, and we’ll have ballot harvesting….and the unmonitored ballot boxes that is good, because that could help us cheat,” he stated. “What the Democrat Party is they are the anti-democracy party. That’s what they’ve become.”
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to ship remarks on voting rights throughout a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 11, 2022.
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The federal payments, if handed, would permit for same-day voter registration, set up Election Day as a nationwide vacation and broaden mail-in voting. Democrats say the 2 payments are pressing in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot on the Capitol to cease President Biden’s election certification, former President Trump’s continued false claims he received the 2020 election, and “voter suppression” legal guidelines in GOP-led states.
Republicans, nonetheless, say the proposed legal guidelines quantity to a radical federal takeover of native elections and have warned ending the filibuster would quantity to a shutdown of the Senate.
Scott praised his colleagues Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., for opposing the elimination of the filibuster, which permits Republicans to use the legislative course of to preserve the sweeping election overhaul payments from making it throughout the end line.
Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have stated they do not need to undo the filibuster.
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“Thank God there are some people that will show up, and say we believe in minority rights and bipartisanship,” Scott stated. “They will make sure [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer does not get his way and Joe Biden doesn’t get his way right now.”
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As for the upcoming midterm elections, Scott stated he thinks Republicans will not have a tough time reclaiming the House and the Senate.
“I think we’ll take the House, and we’re gonna take the Senate,” he stated. “Joe Biden is cratering, looking at what you list, border, killing Keystone pipeline, inflation, the withdrawal of Afghanistan debacle, defunding police. Not letting parents be involved in schools, they are unpopular,” he stated.
“We’ll have a great 2022, and make sure we stop the crazy stuff,” Scott added. “We’ll win in ‘22 and ’24 and change the direction of the nation for the better.”
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