President Joe Biden was caught on camera willingly handing over his photo ID to vote in the 2022 Midterm elections, after claiming voter identification requirements were racist and “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
Biden, almost 80, showed up to vote in Delaware with his granddaughter Natalie, and was asked to present valid photo ID by poll workers.
The elderly president then fished in his pocket for his billfold, produced the ID, and handed it over to the poll workers while they clapped for him.
Here is Joe Biden eagerly showing his ID before voting in Delaware.
Jim Crow 2.0? pic.twitter.com/9g1iX86scW
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 31, 2022
Biden had previously claimed that election integrity laws requiring photo ID to vote, such as those advanced by Republicans in Georgia, were tanntamount to “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
Previous statements by Biden about photo ID laws include “This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle,” “This is Jim Crow in the 21st century,” “This is Jim Crow on steroids,” and “Jim Crow in the 21st century is now a sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion.”
“Instead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote,” Biden said of photo ID laws in Georgia. “This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience.”
Biden, March 31, 2021: "I would strongly support" MLB moving the All-Star game out of Georgia over new voting laws.
"The very people who’re victimized the most are the people who are the leaders in these … various sports … This is Jim Crow on steroids." pic.twitter.com/lFSIgQadHW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 22, 2022
“There is nothing ‘Jim Crow’ about requiring a photo or state-issued ID to vote by absentee ballot — every Georgia voter must already do so when voting in-person,” Georgia governor Brian Kemp responded at the time.
This news and commentary by Gabriel Keane originally appeared on Valiant News.
