Sharpton Calls on Biden to Push Voting Rights Legislation: 'They're Stabbing Us in the Back'
Civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton called on President Joe Biden to push for voting rights legislation on the 58th anniversary on the March on Washington.
Speaking at a rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday, Sharpton recalled that when civil rights leaders met with Biden to remind him that on the night he won the 2020 presidential election, he said Black Americans had his back and that he would have theirs.
"Well, Mr. President, they're stabbing us in the back," Sharpton said amid legislative attempts across several states to limit voting.
He called on Biden to take action to push senators to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and to "carve around" the filibuster to advance the bill, named after the late civil rights icon. He said Biden needs to call moderate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and work with him to pass the legislation.
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