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Biden's trip to Atlanta seeks to guarantee minority voting rights
Promoting electoral reform in the southern states is the objective
In a special speech in Atlanta, Georgia, President Joe Biden declared on Tuesday his goal of ending the Senate's obstacles to passing federal reform that guarantees the right to vote for minorities in conservative southern states.
He affirmed that history will judge them, qualifying the law as crucial for the country's political future and guaranteeing that it will be a defining turning point between democracy and totalitarianism.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met privately with Martin Luther King III, son of the icon of African-American freedom, on an official visit to the cemetery where his remains are found.
Prior to his trip to the interior of the country, the Administration has tried to reach out to political activists in Georgia who oppose his government, following the warning last week in which he called not to attend Biden's speech without a proposal from the White House to pass the electoral law.
In Georgia, leaders, disgusted by the lack of responses, considered it a waste of time to attend the speech of the president and vice president when Democrats do not have the necessary votes (51) to pass the bill in the Senate.
Under the slogan "there is no celebration without representation", the alliance of organizations promoting the right to vote described it as unnecessary to attend the speech just because of a photograph.
In the absence of Stacey Abrams, Biden responded to the press that he did not feel insulted, indicating that hours before he had spoken by phone with the congresswoman and candidate for the governor of Georgia, and stressed that there are no differences between them.
His absence was due to a failure in the calendars, since both parties coordinated activities for that same day.
Obstructionist conservatives
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer does not appear to have the expected votes to avoid obstruction before Monday, the date he has set as a deadline to coincide with Martin Luther King Day.
To change the rules, aside from the vote for Kamala Harris, it will take fifty votes from Democratic senators, as they face the negative stance of centrist Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who have so far opposed the bill.
Manchin has shown that bipartisan help is needed for any breakthrough on filibuster, which Republicans have repeatedly used to block the ballot bill from being passed.
