Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., said on Tuesday that President Biden pushing a radical plan to overhaul elections is nothing but a “power grab.”
“This is nothing but a power grab to take the right at the constitutional authority of states to manage their own elections, and it’s a federal takeover of our elections,” Hice told “Fox & Friends First.”
Hice claimed the measure will “install the ability for Democrats to cheat in the elections at a time when states are doing everything they can to shore up election integrity.”
“The Democrats now are coming in trying to dismantle all of that. It is shameful. And of course, they’re coming to Georgia because Georgia is ground zero in this battle.”
Another Georgia lawmaker weighed in on Biden’s election reform measure. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., blasted Biden’s plan as nothing more than a power grab to federalize elections.
Carter added that the Democrats want to take away voter I.D., though voters from both parties want to keep it to ensure honest elections.
President Biden delivers remarks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House Aug. 5, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Biden delivered remarks on the administration’s efforts to strengthen American leadership on clean cars and trucks (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“They want to make it to where candidates that you may not even agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. I mean, it’s just ridiculous what they’re trying to do here to federalize these elections when it’s perfectly clear in our Constitution in Article Two, Section One, Clause Two that the state legislatures are given the right exclusively to set the voting laws in the states and in the union,” he said.
Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche contributed to this report.
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