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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, will my colleague from Texas yield for a request, just a request. I would like to borrow his chart.
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Mr. SCHUMER. OK. My colleague, I would yield to you. I have the floor.
Do you mind if I borrow your chart? Great. Thank you.
Now, my good colleague from Texas says 94 percent of voters said voting was easy in 2020. So why don't we keep it that way?
Isn't it true that all of the changes that we are arguing about are post-2020, and is it an overwhelming likelihood that this number, if these changes are allowed to go into effect, will go way down? So, yes, we agree. Keep the 2020 laws. Maybe we should improve them. Right now, what we are combating is a series of legislatures--19--and 33 laws that will make this number surely go down because it makes voting less hard. So we agree that 2020 worked out OK. I guess my friend is saying the Big Lie is false because Donald Trump said it was fraudulent, the election results.
I would thank my colleague for his chart and will be using it again.
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Mr. SCHUMER. I sure would.
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Mr. SCHUMER. There is a long list of them, which I have listed in my speeches. Let me just give one or two: one, making early voting places and dropoff voting places many fewer; No. 2, in the largest county-- Democratic county, African-American county--in Georgia, taking away the bipartisan ability to collect those votes; No. 3, in Georgia, making it a crime that, if you are standing in line, you can't be fed, and the lines, by the way, according to the reports I get, are much longer in African-American communities than in White suburban communities, making it much, much harder--making it a crime, rather--to give people water or a sandwich.
So I am going to now give my remarks, but I thank my colleague for the question, and I am going to take the floor.
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Mr. SCHUMER. The last question, yes.
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Mr. SCHUMER. If the Senator would yield, as long as there is no fraud, if a person in a nursing home can't get to the polling place and wants to vote and someone collects their ballot, there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, that is good. That makes it easier for them to vote.
With all of these things that they bring up, there has been no evidence of fraud--none. Donald Trump has not produced any evidence of fraud. He lost by 7 million votes. Yet he is saying he won the election.
We all know what is motivating our colleagues on the other side of the aisle--obeisance to Donald Trump. I would guess most of them know that the election was not stolen, that the Big Lie doesn't take effect, but Trump has such power over the Republican Party--such power--that they do what he wants in the legislatures and here in the Senate.
I would remind my good friend from Texas that his fellow Texans George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush proudly supported an extension of the Voting Rights Act. They proudly did that. It was bipartisan until Donald Trump came over and, in my opinion, poisoned the Republican Party on voting rights. We could use a little resistance to Donald Trump. We see it from a good number of Republicans out in the country, and we see it from a good number of Republican commentators, but we don't see it here in the Senate, and that is unfortunate.
I am not going to yield for a further question.
Mr. President, as I begin my remarks, let me begin with the following figure--and we will have a debate later.
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