Jen Psaki Obliterates GOP Bill Criminalizing Non-Citizens Voting in Elections: ‘That’s Already a Crime!
MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki slammed the House GOP over a new bill criminalizing non-citizens voting in the November elections.
On Wednesday, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans introduced a new bill that would requires all states to verify proof of citizenship for every voter in order to prevent noncitizens from voting in federal election — something which is already illegal.
The latest legislative push is a key policy of former President Donald Trump who has used this talking point in his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. According to the Associated Press, Johnson noted that noncitizens voting represents a “a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system.”
Psaki, President Joe Biden’s former White House press secretary, said the latest bill is “intended to sow the seeds of doubt about our country’s elections, should Donald Trump lose.”
The speaker of the House and his fellow Republicans are falsely claiming that millions of noncitizens illegally vote. Look, Republican election conspiracies are nothing new. But what makes those remarks from Johnson and Co even more outrageous is the brazen attempt to actually tie two right wing conspiracies together, almost with a bow. Their false claim of mass election fraud and they’re racist and frankly, dumb. Replacement theory. We’ve talked about this on our show before. It’s the once fringe, but now apparently mainstream Republican dogma that Democrats and elites are purposefully bringing in migrants from third world countries in order to dilute the influence of political power of real Americans. Real Americans. According to Johnson and his colleagues, Joe Biden has opened the border to as many migrants as possible in order to activate them as fraudulent Democratic votes come November. That’s crazy. That theory is not only false and racist and dangerous and insane, but it also crumbles under the slightest weight of the most basic questions…
As I said at the top, non-citizens can’t vote. That’s already a crime! At best, this Republican legislation pushes a solution looking for a problem, but far more alarming. It’s intended to sow the seeds of doubt about our country’s elections should Donald Trump lose. We’re not going to take our eye off of it. We’ll keep talking about it, and neither should you.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
