While Major League Baseball (MLB) will hold its All-Star game at Truist Park in Atlanta on July 15, it must never be forgotten that the Midsummer Classic should have been played there four years ago as scheduled.
In 2021, the state of Georgia and city of Atlanta were robbed of the event during the dark days of the Biden Administration at the height of COVID lockdowns, cancel culture and wokeism. MLB moved the annual event to Denver after caving to pressure from the radical socialist left based on the absolute lie that Georgia’s election integrity measure — Senate Bill 202 — was racist voter suppression legislation.
At the time, divisive former President Joe Biden falsely called the bill “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and said he “strongly supported” moving the game to Colorado. The truth is that the law simply made it easier to vote and harder to cheat – and voter turnout in Georgia has increased in recent elections. As it turns out, it was a completely phony narrative concocted by the crooked liberal establishment that ranks right up there with some of their other fake stories like the Trump-Russia collusion tall tale was real, Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, or President Biden was as sharp as a tack and totally fit for office.
The entire despicable episode showcased the radical left at its absolute worst, with Democrat politicians spinning a falsehood in coordination with their allies in the biased mainstream media designed to smear conservatives and Republicans as racists trying to disenfranchise African American voters. The reality is legislators in Georgia were just trying to make their elections more secure in the wake of the controversial 2020 campaign where somehow clueless Joe Biden mysteriously received a record number of votes nationwide during the fog of the coronavirus pandemic.
All the election bill did was strengthen absentee ballot procedures, limit fraud-prone drop boxes and enhanced in-person voting for individuals interested in voting early. It’s common-sense legislation that remains the law in Georgia today and is widely seen as a successful endeavor in that it made voting systems stronger while making it easier to vote simultaneously.
Earlier this year when the Justice Department dismissed the Biden Administration’s baseless lawsuit against the Georgia law, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated, “Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us. Americans can be confident that this Department of Justice will protect their vote and never play politics with election integrity.”
Sadly, the Democrat Party still views strong election measures and secure ballots as an existential threat, just like in the case of President Trump’s policy to execute the largest deportation in history. Let’s face it, if every state had strong election laws that make it hard to cheat and easy to vote, and illegal immigrants weren’t able to vote in our elections, the left might have a big problem on its hands. Maybe that’s why they’re behaving like maniacs in the face of law-and-order policies and popular reforms designed to make voter fraud less likely.
This year’s All-Star game in the Peach State should serve as a reminder to the U.S. Senate to take up House-passed “no-brainer” election integrity bills like the SAVE Act which would require people registering to vote to show proof of citizenship. This bill, along with showing identification to vote, are supported by over 80 percent of the American people. Even if Senate Democrats are too dishonest to support these reasonable efforts, Majority Leader John Thune should get everyone on the record so the American people can see for themselves who is against securing our elections. The bottom line is that the American people are sick and tired of crazy election laws that sometimes take months to decide a winner.
As I said at the time, “the only thing worse than Jim Crow is falsely linking something to Jim Crow in order to sow division in the quest for a political win.” This was true then and it’s true now – and we must never forget what the left did in Atlanta during the summer of 2021.
When Democrats should have been trying to get Biden’s inflation crisis under control, they instead focused on smearing Georgia and well-intentioned people just trying to strengthen their elections. And it should be remembered that President Trump attended a World Series game in Atlanta in the fall of 2021 in part to stand up to the shameful behavior of the woke cancel culture mob who were doing so much harm to our great country.
Thankfully, Georgia stood tall for common-sense election integrity against left-wing bullies when it mattered most.
David N. Bossie is president of Citizens United. He served as deputy campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for President in 2016.
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