Barack Obama also weighs in on rise of restrictive voting laws, saying whether they persist ‘the tough-won battles of 50 years ago erode and our democracy erodes’Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused her Republican presidential rivals of “awe-mongering” over a “phantom epidemic of election fraud” as a ruse to justify imposing new barriers to voting that would harm the democratic process.
In some of the sharpest words the Democratic frontrunner has yet unleashed against the pack of Republican contenders for the White House – one of whom she may well face in the general election next year – she said most of the GOP field of 17 candidates would put up “new obstacles to voting. That’s wrong and it’s counter to American values.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com