Friday on MSNBC’s Deadline, race huckster Al Sharpton claimed that Republicans in the Texas Senate and the House are “beginning to play the role that many segregationists played in the ’60s” by attempting to pass election integrity legislation.
Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “Republicans in Texas are ramping up the fight to enact those voter suppression laws there. The sergeant at arms went door-to-door to attempt to serve warrants at homes to achieve a quorum to pass the bill. No arrests were made, and they are unlikely to have the quorum need to pass the bill this weekend. Rev, I know you call these folks in the trenches with you, fighting for voter rights legislation, but the truth is their strategy is still working.”
Sharpton responded, “Their strategy is definitely working. They’re keeping the House and the Senate in Texas from reaching a quorum even though the Senate after the filibuster went ahead… They’re keeping the limelight and spotlight on the issue. It is working because now we’re seeing even in Washington, there are serious discussions about coming back, dealing with voting rights when the recess is over. Certainly, as we escalate with the big national march on August 28, all of this will continue to keep this in the national eyes of the public and say, why are we dealing with restrictive voting laws?”
Fact check: election integrity legislation is restrictive only in the sense that it restricts the widespread voter fraud that Democrats need to win elections.
Race-mongering propagandist Sharpton added, “So I think that the Texas Democrats and others are doing what is right. I think that the Republicans that are in the Senate and the House in Texas are beginning to play the role that many segregationists played in the ’60s. They have become so insensitive and so emotional about trying to move the restrictions that they’re losing touch with where public sentiment is.”
In fact, public sentiment is on the side of election reform. Only Democrat elites like Sharpton don’t want free and fair elections, which is why he demonizes his political opposition, as he always has, as racist.