The president told ESPN's Sage Steele that the newly passed voting law in Georgia was"Jim Crow on steroids."
"I think today's professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly," Biden told ESPN's Sage Steele in an interview. "I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They're leaders." The new law would add an ID requirement to absentee ballots, shorten runoffs in the state after two high-profile Republican losses and strip the secretary of state from the state election board.
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told CNBC it was "a step backwards," while Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a company memo that it did "not match Delta's values.""Look at what's happened across the board. The very people who are victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports, and it's just not right," Biden said. "This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they're doing in Georgia and 40 other states.
Conventions are pulling out of Texas. 👍
Start a petition to RECALL Brian Kemp for signing a racist voter suppression law.
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JonLemire The Dodgers missed out last year, bring it to LA⚾️ movetheallstargame
Why not yankee stadium or citifield
JonLemire That trump wall should go all around geogia and Florida
Good for him. I'm sure the hotels, motels and restaurants among others, aren't happy, but it was the right thing to do.
Only hurting inner city libshits. Dont care. Less traffic for me
How many times are you losers going to boycott this state? you’re not supposed to be there to begin with, I guess you thought we all forgot about the abortion ban boycott?
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allahpundit Lmfao
allahpundit Perfect hurt the people of Georgia for nothing. Joe your State of Delaware has much more restrictive voting rules. Will you call for a boycott of Deleware?
allahpundit Do it
JonLemire Excellent. Wake Up Commissioner. The Player's Support Moving It Out of Georgia.
Why is viewership of all sports down? Because these overpaid athletes making political statements. People just want to see a game nothing else
The dispute on voting, and indeed civil rights, had to eventually play out in sports. I suspect that Kaepernick was just the beginning. Leaving unresolved such basic human rights issues weakens America, and diverts us from acting on so much else.
A) The bill does no such thing B) Why not move because of the crime, poverty, drugs that have plagued Atlanta for decades thanks to piss poor handling by Democrat.
MLB MoveAllStarGame from Georgia,baseball stand up for democracy or be complicit in rigged elections and voter suppression.,VotingRightsAct RecallBrianKemp vaccinated WearAMask HR1 Delta Microsoft CocaCola MLB MLB_PLAYERS
Kick em where it hurts ,right in the purse !
Biden is lying about th GA bill
Delta DeltaNewsHub. JoeBiden hasn’t told the truth about our election integrity legislation from the beginning. Georgia has a minimum of 17 early voting days, Delaware has none. Georgia has no-excuse absentee balloting, Delaware does not. Read the law. FourPinocchios
The people of Georgia, with the guidance of the splendiferous staceyabrams , elected Democrats ossoff and SenatorWarnock. Evidently the bigotted BrianKempGA has got to be impeached for he is not representative of the people of Georgia.
Liberal elite again harming the very people they claim to be concerned about. All of the jobs that support the event will be lost, those people are the real suppressed and disenfranchised.
Biden continuing his push to heal the country and bring people together.
I’m no expert on voter suppression, but if you can have a ballot mailed to you, vote at home while watching CSI, then drop it in a mailbox - I don’t find that super suppressing.
Also because of their racist name. NotYourMascot
Got to hurt them in their pockets! Kemp should be ashamed and his cronies!
Not your call
Can someone tell me why having proper ID to vote is a bad idea
Most concerning, the Rs learned their lesson to overthrow election results by usurping the Secretary of State powers so the legislature can discount votes.... and do what Trump was pressing for - prepping for the next election.
Good thing it’s not his choice... Thank God
Puh-leeze 🙄
Hoping professional athletes in all sports have something to say.
Atlanta is over 50% black so he doesn't want black people to have all-star game in they home town? Because Georgia wanna see id to vote..lol
Gov Kemp's voter suppression bill says on election day be aware. MLB Delta HomeDepot staceyabrams Cannonfor58 GOPChairwoman FOX5Atlanta
White House extortion?
Yea Joe , move all those good paying jobs and tax revenue out of Atlanta. Make them suffer because you are the 'unity' president.
North Carolina’s anti-trans “bathroom bill” was repealed largely because of economic consequences, including losing the NBA all star game. Don’t let people say this stuff doesn’t matter. It does. A travel restriction here, a cancelled event there, that stuff adds up.
Fuck POTUS
So would a lot of people see the all star game moves out of Atlanta
These are common sense laws that do nothing to restrict voting access.
IF YOU DON’T THINK JUST LIKE ME, YOU WILL BE PUNISHED
ForgetfulBiden needs to stay out of sports and politicizing it
Oh stop it! Morons. You have better things to do
So much unity, the great uniter in chief
Democracy shouldn’t be a partisan issue
Play stupid games..
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