Trevor Noah on Republicans 'Every year they make it 5% harder to vote'

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Late-night hosts recap Republican efforts to restrict voting access and Biden’s speech mourning 500,000 Americans lost to Covid
Thanks to state-level efforts to expand mail-in voting and drop-off boxes, record turnout in the 2020 election helped secure the White House for Joe Biden and flip the Senate for Democrats. Which is why, explained Trevor Noah on Tuesday’s Daily Show, Republicans in numerous states are trying to crack down on access to the vote; 33 state legislatures have introduced 165 bills to restrict voter access in just the last month. In other words, “Republicans saw the record number of people exercising their right to vote,” said Noah, “and they said, ‘Yo, that shit cannot happen again.’” Continue reading...

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