Talking on the Annual Mates of Eire Luncheon on Thursday to mark St. Patrick’s Day, President Biden started by asserting, “Father, earlier than I start — bless me, Father, for I’m about to sin. I — properly, I simply need you to know, I could also be Irish, however I’m not silly.”

Earlier than an viewers within the Rayburn Room on the U.S. Capitol, he continued, “I married Dominic Giacoppa’s daughter. Okay?”

Biden: “I could also be Irish, however I’m not silly.”

— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) March 17, 2022

In an try and painting himself as caring about Individuals’ unity, he added, “We must always have extra instances like this the place Democrats and Republicans get collectively, and we really not solely agree on one factor, however we remind ourselves we really like one another. And it’s a helpful factor.”

The Washington Submit admitted in January that Biden had “escalated his partisan rhetoric Wednesday throughout his first information convention in 10 months, laying the blame for his stalled agenda on the toes of Republicans and suggesting on the eve of his one-year anniversary that he has been shocked by their intransigence.”

Final July, talking on the Nationwide Structure Middle in Philadelphia, Biden issued a bitterly partisan assault on Republicans over voter rights, snapping, “Whereas this broad assault in opposition to voting rights just isn’t unprecedented, it’s taking over a brand new and, actually, pernicious types.” He stated:

In Texas, for instance, Republican-led state legislature desires to permit partisan ballot watchers to intimidate voters and imperil neutral ballot staff. They need voters to dive [drive] farther and have the ability to be able the place they marvel who’s watching them and intimidating them; to attend longer to vote. To drive a hell of lot lo- — excuse me — a great distance — (laughter) — to get to vote. They wish to make it so exhausting and inconvenient that they hope individuals don’t vote in any respect. That’s what that is about.

This yr alone, 17 states have enacted — not simply proposed, however enacted — 28 new legal guidelines to make it more durable for Individuals to vote, to not point out — and catch this — almost 400 extra payments Republican members of the state legislatures try to cross.

The twenty first century Jim Crow assault is actual. It’s unrelenting, and we’re going to problem it vigorously.

Whereas this broad assault in opposition to voting rights just isn’t unprecedented, it’s taking over a brand new and, actually, pernicious types.

It’s not nearly who will get to vote or making it simpler for eligible voters to vote. It’s about who will get to depend the vote — who will get to depend whether or not or not your vote counted in any respect. It’s about transferring from unbiased election directors who work for the individuals to polarized state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political events.

To me, that is easy: That is election subversion. It’s probably the most harmful menace to voting and the integrity of free and honest elections in our historical past. By no means earlier than have they determined who will get to depend what votes depend.

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