‘He’s phoning it in’: why Biden is losing the voting rights fight

Activist say the president and Democrats have failed to stop Republican efforts to curtail the vote

For months, Biden and other Democrats have raised alarm about efforts to restrict the vote. Republicans have succeeded nonetheless.

Since January, Republican lawmakers in Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Arkansas and Montana have all enacted new legislation that impose new barriers to voting. The successful Republican filibuster this week - which stalled the sweeping voting rights legislation, the For the People Act - only underscored how Democrats have failed to stop GOP efforts to curtail the vote.