Jim Crow 2.0? Abbott Signs Bill Making It Easier to Vote

CLAY: Speaking of the banning that is going on, do you remember when all the members of the Texas statehouse were heroes and how everybody was saying, “Oh, man, look at the stand that they’re taking. They’re on the Capitol steps! They’re doing such an incredible job fighting back in favor of voting rights and this is gonna be a tremendous accomplishment.” And they all were hanging out in their hotel rooms, and they were getting on MSNBC and CNN.

Then the story just kind of started to fade because people didn’t really care that much, and the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott said, “Hey, you know what? I’m just gonna keep calling special sessions, and eventually they’re gonna have to come back to the state, and eventually we’re going to pass the legislation that they’re trying to avoid passing.” Yeah, it passed. Let’s listen to cut 29 right now.

GOV. ABBOTT: The Texas law, it does make it easier than ever before for anybody to go cast a ballot. It does also, however, make sure that it is harder for people to cheat at the ballot box in Texas.

CLAY: It’s now a fait accompli, so to speak, Buck Sexton. There’s no ability to stop this from becoming a law, and it’s amazing how this story has sort of disappeared. Partly that might be because now everybody suddenly pivoted to abortion, the abortion law out of Texas. But the voting rights bill is effectively done; Democrats accomplished nothing.

BUCK: Governor Abbott also has got a couple challenges right now from the right for his governor’s chair, including Allen West, among others. So he knows he’s gotta step it up a little bit as governor if he wants to —

CLAY: Maybe Matthew McConaughey.

BUCK: Well, that’s on the Democrat side.

CLAY: Yeah, but still, it’s kind of crazy.

BUCK: But here’s some of the things that it does: bans 24-hour and drive through voting, has new vote-by mail ID mandates, bans officials from mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, empowers poll watchers — by the way, this is the CNN version of it — monthly voter roll checks, new requirements for assisting voters. All this sounds great! It’s funny.

I’m reading this, the ACLU is already saying, “This is the most tyrannical thing in the history of tyranny. We’re gonna sue!” I mean, you’ve all these libs who are, “Oh, this is Jim Crow 2.0! Oh, this is voter suppression.” Clay, it expands voting access from where it was before in the state of Texas. It has much more expansive voting access than New York state or Delaware, some of these very deep blue states. But they’re just gonna lie about it to people and say that it’s a voter-suppression bill.

CLAY: You know what I think is interesting, Buck, is I think the Democrats have so wildly overplayed their hand here, and I think the wild overplay was when Joe Biden got up and said, “Hey, this is like the Civil War! This is the most dangerous moment in our country’s history,” and even when they pulled the Major League Baseball game out of Georgia. Remember when all that debate was going on, and then you started looking. I mean, all these states that are supposedly suppressing the vote are actually have way more liberal voting policies than Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware.

BUCK: In the state of Texas, for example, voter ID including for mail-in ballots has a support in the range of 80%.

CLAY: Of all races.

BUCK: By the way, of all Texans across the board. About 80% say, yeah, voter ID. So, yeah, if you’re like a hard-core leftist or you don’t understand what the question is, maybe you oppose voter. Short of that, any Texan would want voter ID provisions, but the media just ignores data. You always talk about the data, Clay.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They ignore the at all data and run with the narrative. So what you’re saying about the overreach for a reasonable person of course what you’re saying is true. I feel like Democrats, they fundraise off this, they play to the lunatic MSNBC-watching base. I don’t know if they pay a price for this. Otherwise, what do they keep doing? Why keep lying about it if it hurts them?

CLAY: I think what they’re doing is setting up, when they lose in 2022 —

BUCK: Oh, yeah.

CLAY: — they’re gonna argue in 2024, “We gotta fight back against racism and Jim Crow 2.0,” because the entire Democratic campaign basically boils down to, as you know, Buck Sexton: “Everything is racist.” That’s their entire campaign.