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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Biden calls on Democrats to stand up to fight GOP’s voting rights attacks

image003In a new online video, Vice President Joe Biden blasts ongoing Republican efforts to make voting more difficult, and urges supporters to join the growing effort to push back. It’s the latest sign that Democrats aim to use the issue to energize their core voters this fall.

“If someone had said to me 10 years ago I had to make a pitch for protecting voting rights today, I would have said ‘you got to be kidding,’” Biden says in the video, unveiled Monday morning by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and given to msnbc for an exclusive first look.

But the Supreme Court’s decision last year to “cut the heart out of the Voting Rights Act,” Biden says, “opened the floodgates to voter suppression efforts nationwide.” He specifically calls out Texas’s strict voter ID law, North Carolina’s sweeping and restrictive voting law, and recent cuts to early and weekend voting in Ohio and Wisconsin.

The video promotes a DNC project, announced recently by President Bill Clinton, that aims to fight voting restrictions, advocate for laws that expand access to the ballot, and promote voter registration.

Visit Biden urges Dems: Stand up for voting rights to read more.