Reporters care more about embarrassing Democrats than policies for Americans. Schumer and Klobuchar schooled two reporters.
Schumer & Klobuchar school reporters.
Senator Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Schumer did not allow two reporters to get away with silly questions. A reporter attempted to justify Red State voter suppression techniques as not so because of the initial temporary nature of early voting procedures. Klobuchar would have none of it.
“Whoa, whoa! First of all, mail-in balloting has been the way of voting in the state of Utah,” Klobuchar said. “It hasn’t been temporary, and that is one Red State. And mail-in balloting has been the way of life in many, many, states; red, blue, and purple. And one of the things we’ve learned from the pandemic is that it’s actually incredibly helpful in a pandemic, but it’s also made it easier for people to vote. So what has gone on in some states is they’ve rolled back the very things that will make it easier to vote, leading to more and more, as I pointed out, confusion.”
Klobuchar then gave specific state-by-state examples.
“The other thing, it’s important to know, and the reason I use the example of Montana and same-day registration is they are also rolling back things that have long been the law in states,” Klobuchar said. “They basically, to quote a North Carolina court regarding a law a few years ago, are discriminating with surgical precision by looking at each state and figuring out how did more people vote this way. Well, let’s change that 70 000 people registered to vote in the state of Georgia during the runoff period. So let’s do two things. Let’s reduce the runoff period which they have done. And then let’s not allow same-day registration. I can give you numerous examples of both ways they’ve rolled back things that they changed during the pandemic, like witnesses for mail-in ballots in South Carolina, then they took that away, and things that were put in place even before the pandemic. But no matter which way they did it, it all adds up to one thing. And that is voter suppression and limiting people’s freedom to vote, and voter suppression aimed, not at the general population, but at particular populations, particularly people of color, urban people, etc.”
The Senator wanted to take the voter suppression messaging from just words to actual state examples. And she continued, including Oregon.
Later another reporter asked if Democrats should not be concentrating on issues where there was more support. Schumer made it clear that Democrats can walk and chew gum simultaneously. This is how one should handle reporters that are clearly Right-biased.