1/ @POTUS @JoeBiden and @VP @KamalaHarris try to convince us that we can overcome #Republican #VoterSuppression by out-organizing them (and donating more money, of course). They must have forgotten recent history, so @IndivisibleSF would like to remind them:
2/ 2000: Bush v Gore. Nationwide, Gore defeats Bush by 500,000 votes. But Bush "wins" Florida (and therefore the @WhiteHouse) by 537 votes. Prior to the election, Bush's brother, then FL Gov. Jeb Bush, purged 58,000 voters from the rolls, most of them African American.
3/ A court case and investigation by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission later concluded that thousands of voters were wrongly purged, costing Gore at least 4,752 votes — 22 times Bush’s supposed 537 vote margin of victory. #VoterSuppression
4/ 2016: Clinton v #Trump. Nationwide, Clinton receives 2,900,000 more votes than Trump. But Trump ekes out narrow wins in three key states: PA by 44,000 (.007 of total votes), MI by 11,000 (.002), and WI by 2,200 (.0008).
5/ Prior to the election, WI imposed some of the harshest #VoterSuppression laws ever seen & on election day MI voters in Black precincts were wrongly barred from voting, based on phony ID requirements. Voter suppression in Milwaukee alone was enough to hand Trump the win in WI.
6/ One observer later concluded: "There’s no doubt that these election changes affected the turnout among young voters, first-time voters, voters of color, and other members of the Obama coalition that overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton.” #VoterSuppression
7/ So don't you DARE lecture us about how #WeThePeople must work harder than ever, after we already worked our asses off to get you into office in 2020 AND hand you majorities in BOTH houses, DESPITE ALL ODDS! SHAME ON YOU BOTH! YOU must STEP UP & PROTECT our #FreedomToVote NOW!
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