.png){kind=small}
President Joe Biden will make "the moral case" for voting rights in a highly anticipated speech on Tuesday centered around protecting ballot access in the face of "authoritarian and anti-American" restrictions, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
Biden will use his remarks in Philadelphia "to make the case to the American people about how this is a fundamental right," Psaki said.
The President will call the denial of the right to vote as "grounded in autocracy, undemocratic, un-American, and unpatriotic," the official said. He will speak about the history of voter suppression in the US, including poll taxes, literacy tests, the disenfranchisement of women and enslaved people and campaigns by the KKK.