PHILADELPHIA - President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia on Tuesday to deliver a speech on voting rights as he faces pressure to combat efforts of Republican-led state legislatures seeking to pass measures restricting access to the ballot.Biden gave remarks at the National Constitution Center, a museum devoted to the Constitution located in the birthplace of U.S.
democracy. The White House has faced growing pressure from civil rights activists and other Democrats for not doing more to protect voting rights, even as Biden has declared the issue a central cause of his presidency.
Several U.S. states have enacted voting restrictions, and others are debating them, as Republicans have seized on former President Donald Trump’s false claim of.