Biden acknowledged that his administration didn’t ramp up production of rapid tests during a critical pandemic lull throughout the spring and early summer, when the nation's thin stockpile could have been bolstered.
as well as his proposal to enshrine broader voting rights protections in the face of state-level Republican efforts that experts and activists say could discourage election participation. Asked by a reporter if both measures were stuck at the moment, the usually expansive Biden was blunt, responding, “That’s true.”
At times growing indignant, Biden wondered rhetorically if Republicans had any agenda other than stopping his own: “What are they for?” that has effectively endorsed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol as a justifiable response to his own election “They weren’t nearly as obstructionist as they are now,” Biden told Yahoo News, citing Republicans who at that time were willing to work with Democrats, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Lindsey Graham, who years later would become one of Trump’s staunchest supporters.Questioning the integrity of the 2022 electionsRepublicans in 41 states introducing 262 different bills to “subvert free and fair election administration.
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