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Georgia had voter ‘suppression’ despite Warnock win, White House claims

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Wednesday that “there was suppression” of voters in Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoff election despite Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s easy win.
Jean-Pierre made the claim while defending President Biden’s past remarks equating the Peach State’s 2021 election reform law with racist segregation-era policies.
“The president … called it ‘Jim Crow in the 21st century‘ and a blatant attack on the Constitution. So does he still see it that way?” Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing.
“There was suppression,” Jean Pierre replied. “We saw that throughout the Georgia election. So that is something that was reported on. So I leave it to those reports. But even with that, the American people came out.”
Warnock, a pastor at Martin Luther King Jr.’s former Atlanta church, defeated Republican candidate Herschel Walker by nearly 3 percentage points, according to preliminary data, after leading the former Heisman Trophy winner by just 0.9% in the Nov. 8 general election.
The Senate contest was a rare instance of both major-party candidates being African-American in the former heartland of the Confederacy.

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