Biden hit with avalanche of mockery after Stacey Abrams blames scheduling snafu for her absence at his voting rights speech in Georgia



President Joe Biden (D) was mocked and ridiculed on social media after Stacey Abrams missed his pivotal speech in Georgia on voting rights and blamed a scheduling mistake for her absence.

Biden announced in his speech Tuesday, that he was fully backing the campaign to end filibuster rules in the Senate in order to overcome Republican opposition to partisan voting rights legislation. Despite the speech being touted as a very important moment for the administration, Abrams was unable to attend the speech prompting many to wonder if it was a snub of the president.

When Biden was asked by a reporter Tuesday if he was insulted by her absence at his speech, he rejected the insinuation that Abrams had purposely snubbed him.

"I'm insulted you asked the question!" Biden joked.

"I spoke to Stacey this morning," he added, "we've got a great relationship, we got our scheduling mixed up, I talked with her at length this morning. We're all on the same page and everything's fine."

Some mainstream media reporters were skeptical at the excuse Abrams gave for skipping the speech.

“As for the Stacey Abrams absence, it does not seem plausible that they simply mixed up their schedules on this event, it's too important,” said John Harwood of CNN.

"Politicians show up with presidents when they have 52% approval ratings, politicians don't show up with presidents when their approval ratings may be in the 30s in a state," said Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.

"It is extraordinary that the president and VP are going to Georgia to talk about voting rights and the most prominent Democrat and prominent voting rights groups in the state have decided not to attend," said Willie Geist on MSNBC.

Critics of the Biden administration also pounced on the story to mock Biden.

"The 'conflict' is that Stacey Abrams wants to be governor, but Georgia voters think that Joe Biden's record is a disaster," tweeted Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.

"That Stacey Abrams can’t even be bothered to attend Biden’s speech about the allegedly extinction-level threat to our democracy emanating from GOP election bills tells you all you need to know about where this latest WH push is headed—absolutely nowhere," replied Rich Lowry of National Review.

"A sign of how unpopular Joe Biden is. Even radicals like Stacey Abrams don't want to associate with Biden — embarrassing," responded Kelly Loeffler.

Here's more about the Abrams snub:

Stacey Abrams Skips Biden's Voting Rights Events in Atlantawww.youtube.com

CNN contributor says Democrats opposed to ending filibuster are just like 'segregationists' who opposed civil rights



CNN contributor Bakari Sellers compared Democrats who are opposed to ending the filibuster to those who were opposed to granting civil rights for African Americans in the sixties.

Sellers made the comments on CNN Tuesday after a report detailing the lack of support among Senate Democrats needed to change U.S. Senate regulations in order to push a voting rights act through Congress.

"This is as clear as I can be, Jake, and Chris Coons is a friend of mine," said Sellers to Jake Tapper.

"But if [Sens.] Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) want to be on the side of George Wallace, want to be on the side of Strom Thurmond, and many others who stood in the way of civil rights, even Strom Thurmond came around on voting rights, but if they want to go down in history as standing on the side of segregationists and those who opposed people who look like me having free and fair access to the ballot, then we will remember them as such," he continued.

"This is that type of moment and this is the urgency we have to have!" Sellers concluded.

Sellers' comments were prompted by a speech from President Joe Biden in which he fully endorsed a carve-out for ending filibuster rules for the voting legislation endorsed by Democrats but opposed by Republicans.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt opined in a tweet that Biden was too weak in the polls to be able to influence any senator to change their vote on the filibuster.

"President Joe Biden, freshly elected, changing his position on the filibuster might have moved the needle in the Senate," she tweeted.

"Might have," she emphasized. "It’s a much steeper climb now, as his approval rating downward trend clearly shows."

Abby Phillips, another CNN anchor, called Biden's comments "too little, too late," and said that congressional sources indicated that Biden had not moved the needle at all toward the rule change among Democrats or Republicans.

Here' s the video of Sellers' comments:

Dem commentator @Bakari_Sellers\u2019 message to Senators who don't support changes to filibuster rules: \u2018We'll remember\u2019 @abbydphillip, @gloriaborger and @rameshponnuru discusspic.twitter.com/BB0Q8rI1Ml
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