White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday called Republican criticism of Joe Biden's voting rights speech in Atlanta 'hilarious.'
She defended the president after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called Biden's speech 'profoundly, profoundly unpresidential' and GOP Senator Mitt Romney said Biden was taking the same 'tragic road' as Donald Trump in trying to undermine the credibility of American elections.
'I know there has been a lot of claims of the offensive nature of the speech yesterday, which is hilarious on many levels, given how many people sat silently over the last four years for the former president,' Psaki said when asked about the remarks at her daily press briefing.
'But I would note that in our view and the president's view, what is far more offensive is the effort to suppress people's basic right to exercise who they want to support and who they want to elect,' she noted.
Romney voted for one count of Trump's impeachment for his role, for his role in inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump was ultimately acquitted by the entire Senate, which included McConnell's support for the acquittal.
The Republican senator from Utah also voted to convict Trump on one count in his first impeachment trial and was a harsh critic of the former president, repeatedly earning Trump's ire.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Republican criticism of Joe Biden's voting rights speech in Atlanta 'hilarious'
Republicans ratched up the rhetoric on Wednesday in response to Biden's own fiery address, where he accused the GOP of standing on the wrong side of history when it came to voting rights.
Romney tore into Biden after his Atlant speech. He said Biden was taking the same 'tragic road' as Trump in undermining the democratic process in a searing speech on the Senate floor.
He also urged Democrats to think about 'what would it mean for them' to abolish the filibuster now and see themselves potentially losing Congress and the White House in the near future -- and chided them for decrying it as racist.
Romney delivered a sharp rebuke of Biden and the Democratic Party on the Senate floor Tuesday night in response to the president's voting rights speech in Georgia
'He also accused a number of my good and principled colleagues in the Senate of having sinister, even racist inclinations,' Romney said. 'So much for unifying the country and working across the aisle.'
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