But this claim around “voter suppression” really gets me. I’m not a terribly emotional person, but this got me profoundly angry. “When the Bible teaches us to feed the hungry and give water to the thirsty, the new Georgia law actually makes it illegal—think of this—I mean, it’s 2020, and now ’22, going into that election—it makes it illegal to bring your neighbors, your fellow voters food or water while they wait in line to vote,” Biden said in January 2022 to students in Atlanta. He was spinning a tale of an America where disenfranchised voters were fainting from hunger and thirst.
