Reuters :
President Joe Biden, under pressure from US civil rights leaders, on Tuesday called it a “national imperative” to pass sweeping voting rights legislation that has stalled in Congress, but he did not outline a path to overcome Republican opposition.
Numerous Republican-controlled states have passed new voting restrictions this year, a push encouraged by Biden’s Republican predecessor Donald Trump.
In a passionate speech in a city considered the nation’s birthplace, Biden, without naming him, took aim at Trump and his supporters for false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from the Republican former president through widespread voting fraud.
“So hear me clearly: there’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections,” Biden told a cheering crowd in Philadelphia.
“The Big Lie is just that: a big lie,” Biden said, referring to unfounded election fraud claims by Trump and his allies.
