Voting rights and infrastructure dominated the Sunday morning political shows, with multiple guests weighing in on both topics.
Republican lawmakers criticized a sweeping, Democratic-backed election reform bill while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he and President Biden are focused on working families in negotiations for a massive infrastructure package.
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| Graham calls voting rights bill ‘biggest power grab’ in history |
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| Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that a sweeping, Democratic-backed election reform bill was “the biggest power grab in the history of the country.”
“In my view, SR-1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country. It mandates ballot harvesting, no voter ID. It does away with the states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. It’s just a bad idea, and it’s a problem that most Republicans are not going to sign – they’re trying to fix a problem most Republicans have a different view of,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.” |
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| Graham: Biden has chance with infrastructure to show what kind of presidency he wants |
| By CAROLINE VAKIL |
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| “I would just say to President Biden, you’ve got a party that’s divided. You’ve got a Republican Party that’s willing to meet you in the middle for a trillion dollars of infrastructure that could fundamentally change the way America does business in roads, ports, and bridges and accelerate electrical vehicles. You’ve got to decide what kind of president you are and what kind of presidency you want,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said. |
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| Schiff calls Iranian presidential election ‘predetermined’ |
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| “The outcome was predetermined, but what struck me was the fact that this was I think the lowest turnout in an Iranian presidential election, perhaps in history,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on CBS’s ‘“Face the Nation.” “Iranians voted with their feet by not showing up at the polls. And millions who did show up at the polls cast white ballots – that is they didn’t check off a candidate for president.” |
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