‘I Never Got a Call From the White House’: Sen. Romney on Election Legislation

In an appearance on NBC, swing-voting Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said that despite his and other Republicans’ willingness to make some changes to federal election laws with Democrats, President Joe Biden did not reach out to him about reaching a compromise. Instead, Democrats went full-steam ahead on a more partisan scheme. Upon returning from their winter recess, many Democrats made a concerted push to weaken or abolish the filibuster and pass election legislation with no Republican support. Democrats have claimed since summer 2021 that America is facing a “Jim Crow”-level crisis as Republican-led states have moved to strengthen their election laws in response to fraud in the 2020 election. Most of the laws being passed across the nation carry provisions to require voter ID or put in place stricter guidelines for absentee balloting, which many considered as a focal point of fraud in 2020. These new rules, Democrats have alleged, …