par Nandita Bose
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the administration’s voting rights efforts, as Republican lawmakers in states across the country try to pass restrictive measures access to voting.
Efforts by some Republican-led states to pass restrictive laws, which the White House and civil rights groups say make it harder for Americans to vote, follow Donald’s failure Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
President Biden has said that voting rights in the United States are “under attack” with an intensity he has never seen before. “It’s just anti-American,” he said during his speech in Oklahoma on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre.
“I ask Vice President Harris to contribute to these efforts, to lead them among her many other responsibilities. With her leadership and your support, we will win again… It’s going to take a lot of work,” said Joe. Biden.
Leading the charge on voting rights is the Vice President’s second high-profile assignment in less than three months. In March, Joe Biden entrusted Kamala Harris with the task of leading the efforts of the United States with Mexico and the countries of the Northern Triangle (Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala) to improve living conditions there and reduce migration from the region through diplomacy.
“In the last election, more people voted than ever before. Since then, more than 380 bills have been introduced across the country that would make it harder for Americans to vote,” Kamala Harris said in a statement.
“Our administration will not remain inactive in the face of any effort to prevent Americans from voting … We must protect the fundamental right to vote for all Americans, regardless of where they live,” she added.
(French version Camille Raynaud)
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