President Joe Biden will travel to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace of Atlanta on Tuesday to jump-start efforts to reform U.S. voting rights after some states passed new laws that activists say will deter Black voters from the polls.
Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, will speak at Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, two historically Black schools, as Democratsfor tough 2022 congressional elections that could strip them of their majority and the chance to change federal voting laws.
Biden wants to build public support for proposed reforms to strengthen voting rights, particularly the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Both have so far withered under opposition from Republicans, who argue they would impose questionable national standards on local elections.
Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday: "Leading Democrats say they want to break the Senate because of a sinister anti-voting plot that is sweeping America. Of course this is totally fake. It does not exist."
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