Mitch McConnell says he's offended by criticism and calls his remarks on African-American voters an

'inadvertent omission'

 

He’s acting like Biden !

 

"Well, the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans. [In] a recent survey, 94 percent of Americans thought it was easy to vote. This is not a problem," he said. "Turnout is up. Biggest turnout since 1900. It's simply— they're being sold a bill of goods to support a Democratic effort to federalize elections. … This goes back 20 years, the excuses change from time to time."

He didn't mean African American voters are not Americans. He meant Americans as in White Americans. It's a slip of the tongue and reflects the Republican brand correctly - prioritizing White Americans above other Americans.

MM said the concern is misplaced because turnout is up, the biggest turnout since 1900. He lied by omission. It also happens that Republicans lost and so a bunch of new Republican election laws passed to make it more difficult to vote. The biggest turnout since 1900s must not repeat.

 

Funny because nobody is making a better case for federalizing elections more than Mitch McConnell and his cronies at the state level. Typical Republican playbook.

-Create a problem
-Democrat has to try and solve it
-blame Democrat for the problem
-undermine their effort to fix it
-shout loudly that the Democrat created the problem and hope people are dumb

 

If African-Americans are voting at the same percentage as Americans (a group that includes but is not limited to African-Americans) there is no problem with African-Americans access to the vote. Seems like a perfectly cogent statement. Would have been clearer if he said "all Americans" or "Americans generally" but it means the same thing. Much ado about nothing. Californians pay federal income taxes at the same rate as Americans.

 

It maybe means the same thing if parsing the sentence like a robot. That’s not how humans speak English. Willing to believe he innocently misspoke, though I understand why some may consider it a Freudian slip.

Also, African Americans have voted nearly at the same rates as Americans as a whole in recent elections due to tremendous efforts to make it easier for them to vote in the face of Republican efforts to make it harder for them to vote. And Republicans have been and are trying to pass laws that will widen the voting gap. So the Senator’s statement seems disingenuous, at a minimum.

 

Complete bullshit. Just because they have the same percent vote does not mean they have the same access. Republicans are constantly removing polling places from urban communities. We have all seen the long lines there that don't exist in the suburbs.

https://civilrights.org/democracy-diverted/#
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...es-in-recent-years-rights-group-idUSKCN1VV09J
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-polling-sites-closures-voting

 

And this is what frustrates me about the media today…McConnell mentions a poll that says that 94% of people think it’s easy to vote. Ok, cool, what poll is that? Who is overseeing it? What were the exact questions?

instead, just an article taking his word at face value with no pushback or investigation into why he says this. The Republicans do this all the time. The Democrats do it quite often. Everyone in the national media landscape, politics or not, can do this as our journalists are too busy trying to get things up quickly for clicks instead of doing just the basics to check on this

 

I do not believe Mitch was offended

I do not believe anyone was offended by what he said ... especially not anyone saying they were offended