A week ago, after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted President Biden's voting rights speech in Georgia, I took the Kentucky Republican to task for wanting to save his skin amid threats from Lindsey Graham that he better play nice with Donald Trump lest he want to lose his position.
Well, it turns out that where it comes to voting rights that McConnell wants to save white skin. After McConnell led Senate Republicans in blocking the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, he was asked about the concerns of African-American voters. To which McConnell replied, "Well the concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."
African-Americans comprise of 8.5% of Kentucky's population. It would appear McConnell does not consider black residents of his own state to be American much less anywhere else in the country. If nothing else it goes a long way in explaining his antipathy and the antipathy of most Republicans to voting rights. Republican Senators like Mitt Romney accuse President Biden and Democrats of hysteria when it comes to racial bias on voting rights and then Senator McConnell comes along proves Biden and Democrats right.
Let me put it another way. If voting rights law are not motivated by race then why do Georgia Republicans single out counties like Fulton where the majority population is African-American?
It will be interesting to see if McConnell blowing this dog whistle gets the attention of former President Trump and helps put McConnell back into his good graces.
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