U.S. President Joe Biden is marking Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church that aims to celebrate the civil rights leader's legacy while reviving the Biden administration's call for sweeping voting rights legislation.
Biden's failure to win passage of a measure that would have bolstered voting right protections, a central campaign pledge, is one of his biggest disappointments of his first two years in office. The task is even steeper now that Republicans control the House.
Bottoms, who was Atlanta's mayor from 2018 to 2022, said "you can't come to Atlanta and not acknowledge the role that the civil rights movement and Dr. King played in where we are in the history of our country." The legislation collapsed last year when two senators -- Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat then and now an independent -- refused to join Democratic colleagues in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster. Sinema last month announced that she was changing her party affiliation, but she continues to caucus with Democrats.
In 2020, Biden managed to win Georgia as well as closely contested Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Black votes made up a disproportionate of the Democratic electorate. Turning out Black voters in those states will be essential to Biden's 2024 hopes. In Atlanta, Biden will the first sitting president ever to speak at a Sunday service at Ebenezer, Bottoms said.
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