Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones took aim at the liberal media for pushing the “Jim Crow 2.0” narrative about the Peach State’s election reform law, calling it “ridiculous political posturing.”
“When you have three weeks of early voting, and weekend voting, and the only thing you’re asking of someone wanting to vote is that they can show an ID to, you know, to prove who they are and show a proper identification for that person to vote, I don’t know how you can call than an attempt to suppress the vote,” Jones told Fox News Digital in an interview.
In 2021, Georgia Republicans were inundated with attacks from the left for enacting election forms, which liberals insisted was a direct result of President Biden defeating former President Trump in the usually red state in the 2020 presidential election.
GEORGIA VOTING SHATTERING TURNOUT RECORDS AFTER MSNBC, CNN, OTHERS RAN WITH ‘JIM CROW’ ACCUSATIONS
Many at the time echoed Biden’s characterization of the law as being “Jim Crow.” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wondered in his piece titled “If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?” Vanity Fair blared the headline “‘Jim Crow in a suit and tie’: Georgia passes massive voter suppression bill.” MSNBC host Joy Reid declared the Georgia legislation the “end of democracy” in America, calling it “Jim Crow American.” The Washington Post editorial board wrote that “No, is not a full return to Jim Crow. But it shows a toxic hostility to democracy that no Republican can take pride in.”
The uproar sparked a boycott movement against Georgia which resulted in the MLB moving its 2021 All-Star game out of Atlanta, but Atlanta later got its revenge as the Braves won the World Series that fall.
Despite what the media wanted Americans to believe, Georgia in fact shattered turnout records in both the May primaries and in the November general election.
Additionally, a poll released by the University of Georgia last week showed that an astonishing 99% of voters in the…
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