Trump: Republicans in Georgia are afraid of being called racist before passing the election law

Old President TrumpDonald TrumpHouse votes to condemn the Chinese government for Hong Kong. Former Vice President Walter Mondale dies at age 93 in the White House for Chauvin MORE’s verdict on Monday he suggested a heavily criticized electoral law recently passed in Georgia is not restrictive enough and said state Republicans weakened the bill for fear of being “called racists.”

“My reaction is that Georgia’s bill is too weak,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity during an extensive interview at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where he now lives. .

“It’s just where you have to have the signature verification. They don’t have it. Why don’t they have the signature verification? You want them to match. You want them to match the signatures. They have a lot of things they didn’t put. Look, the what happened is the governor and the others were afraid of being called racists. ”

Earlier this year, Georgia lawmakers passed a bill to revise local election laws, tightening registration requirements for voting and reducing voter access measures, such as shortening the period in which voters register. a resident of Georgia may request a postal vote.

Critics say the bill is unfairly aimed at minority voters who, in some cases, lack personal identification or reliable transportation to the polling place.

President BidenJoe Biden Obama, Clinton Reflect on Mondale’s Legacy Biden, Harris praises Mondale for paving the way for female vice president Mondale in the latest message to staff: “Joe in the White House certainly helps” MORE described the measure as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century”.

“This law, like so many others that Republicans are persecuting in state houses across the country, is a flagrant attack on the Constitution and good conscience,” Biden said. “It has to end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act.”

The passage of the bill also received strong condemnation from the business world, as major Georgia-based companies such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines exploited the measure.

Trump and other Republicans have suggested that such tight voting restrictions are needed to combat fraud that they say are plentiful in modern elections and have characterized the backlash against Georgia’s bill as a symptom of the so-called culture of cancellation. lation.

“So they gave a very weak bill,” Trump said Monday. “And they’re called racists anyway. They had a much stronger bill a few weeks before this one came out.”

The former president suggested that the partisan battle for Georgia’s election law shows that “Democrats play a much tougher game than Republicans.”