Because the reality is, I don't care what you think about identity politics, everybody in this country deserves the right to be represented in our representative democracy. That is the basic tenet of it. And Without the Voting Rights Act, there is nothing in our history that tells us that these people in these districts will be protected anymore. All history tells us that they won't be. So when you add these up, these are definitely, these are just quintessential attacks on democracy itself. (14:35–14:43)
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Asserts that the absence of the Voting Rights Act leaves districts unprotected.
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