On Sunday, MRC’s Brent Baker observed that ABC This Week host Martha Raddatz spent July 4 complaining about Republicans dealing a blow to “election rights.” The entire introduction had a biased sound to it:
RADDATZ: The nation celebrates democracy, because the president promotes a return to normalcy….
The Trump Group and its CFO charged with a sweeping 15-year felony scheme…..
And the Supreme Courtroom delivers a blow to election rights. We’ll deal with all of it and break down our brand-new ABC Information ballot.
Within the second half-hour, Raddatz turned to ABC deputy political director Averi Harper for that ballot outcome and what the Supreme Courtroom did in upholding Arizona’s legal guidelines in opposition to poll harvesting and counting votes solid within the mistaken precinct:
HARPER: It may deal a blow to that combat in opposition to what voting advocates would name voter suppression in Republican-led states throughout the nation.
And the very fact is that the American persons are not on the facet of the Republican lawmakers in a few of these states. Two to at least one, should you have a look at the ABC/Washington Put up poll, you see that People consider that it’s extra necessary to have voting legal guidelines that make it simpler to vote lawfully than legal guidelines that make it tougher to vote fraudulently.
They did not ask if individuals supported a voter-ID requirement, with as a lot as 80 percent in favor. They did not ask if People favored counting votes solid on the mistaken precinct, or ask in the event that they favored “poll harvesting.”
Time‘s Molly Ball underlined Democrats can be “utilizing the reality that these legal guidelines are unpopular to attempt to encourage Democratic voters.” Raddatz underlined it once more: “Precisely — L.Z., as Averi identified and Molly identified, not precisely consistent with public opinion.”
ABC podcaster L.Z. Granderson insisted Republicans do not care:
Which social gathering controls native govs the place most poor and minorities dwell? @LZGranderson: SCOTUS making poor resolve to make use of fuel cash to vote or to get to work. @MaryCJordan: On July 4th, it’s “stunning…lots of people don’t have the identical entry to vote as different People” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/42Ci7HD3SK
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) July 4, 2021
GRANDERSON: No, after all not. However they do not actually care about public opinion, proper? In the event that they did, then all of this laws, we might be taking a look at in a different way.
The factor that actually frustrates me most is that the justices acknowledged that these new legal guidelines does affect minorities. They did not deny that side of it. They only say that the inconvenience of it is not so nice.
Properly, they’re all privileged. And I grew up poor. I bear in mind my mother scraping collectively 50 cents, 75 cents, $1 only for fuel cash to get to the grocery retailer. If you try this to polling locations, now you are forcing minorities to resolve whether or not or not they are going to make investments cash, fuel cash, to get to the polling locations that are actually additional away, or do I exploit this fuel cash to get to the grocery retailer, or do I get to work?
They’re privileged, saying that this does not inconvenience them sufficient. Properly, how are you aware? When was the final time you have been that poor?
As Baker famous, most minority voting precincts are in large cities the place Democrats have been in energy for many years.
However Mary Jordan of The Washington Put up rounded out the all-liberal panel, insisting there have been all types of “soiled tips” in Mississippi, and lectured “it is July 4 right here. It is all about voting, proper? It is essentially the most basic of rights. We had the Boston Tea Celebration as a result of we could not vote and we have been getting taxed. And it is type of stunning that, proper now, lots of people do not have the identical entry to votes as different People.”
A minimum of Ball added “in some quarters on the proper, there is a feeling that the Democrats are type of hyperventilating about this.” Sure, and so are the “mainstream media.”
This leftist tub-thumping on “restrictive” voting legal guidelines was dropped at you by Gillette razors.
