Stacey Abrams: “I don’t think it’s necessary to completely remove the filibuster”

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Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said Sunday she did not believe it was necessary to “completely eliminate the filibuster” to pass Senate-backed bills.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to completely eliminate the filibuster to fulfill the purposes of approving these bills,” Abrams told the CNN host Jake TapperJacob (Jake) Paul Tapper CNN’s Tapper fights GOP senator over media tweets All eyes on Manchin after COVID-19 aid goes to Senate on Sunday shows: Manchin in the spotlight after the paper fundamental in the debate over aid for coronavirus MORE on “State of the Union”.

“The electoral clause of the Constitution guarantees that Congress only has the power to regulate the time, manner and place of elections. This is a power that is sacrosanct, ”said Abrams. “We are watching this whole country as individual legislators try to use the big lie to restrict access to the right to vote.”

Abrams argued that voting rights-related bills should be exempt from influence.

Abrams has been credited with a huge role in making Georgia blue in the 2020 election, increasing voter turnout through its Fair Fight organization.

During the interview, Abrams also said he agreed with the Senate majority leader Charles SchumerChuck Schumer’s biographer: “Predatory behavior” has been “evident for years” Lawmakers call for action on the first anniversary of Breonna Taylor Schumer’s death, Gillibrand calls on Cuomo to resign MORE (DN.Y.), who said Georgia Republicans’ efforts to restrict voter access were racist.

“First of all, I absolutely agree he’s racist. He’s a Jim Crow redux with a suit and tie,” Abrams said. “It’s not that there was a security issue. In fact, the Secretary of State and the governor went to great lengths to ensure in the United States that Georgia’s elections were safe and therefore the only connection we can find. is that more people of color voted, and he changed the election result in a direction that Republicans don’t like. “

The Georgia legislature has considered a number of bills, including those restricting postal voting and early voting that Democrats say would restrict access to voting. The measures are backed by Republicans who want to impose new voting restrictions later President BidenJoe BidenPompeo: Reintroducing an agreement with Iran will make the “less secure” DNC in the Middle East set in motion to push Biden’s struggle to unravel Trump’s immigration rules network MORE won the state.

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