Joyless Gaslighting: Reid Claims Republicans Want to Ban Voting, End Elections (Not True)

Curtis Houck | January 12, 2022
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Reacting to President Biden’s speech on voting, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid insisted  without evidence on Tuesday that not only do Republicans want to suppress the vote of African-Americans, but they want to end elections entirely by not having “the vote at all and I think y’all need to wake up to that.”

At the end of an A-block, the NAACP’s Sheryl Ifill implored Americans “to understand” the need to remove the filibuster and pass the Democratic Party’s voting policies “is a democracy issue” and “not a niche issue for black people, so now we’re in a crisis because what they were trying out just on black and brown people, they have now decided to run the tables on the whole nation.”