While pushing

 his voting bills, Biden told a crowd in Atlanta that “Republicans today can’t and won’t” support voting rights for racial minorities. He discussed his bills interchangeably with the bipartisan Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was extended on a bipartisan basis multiple times.

At the same time, while Biden was encouraging Congress to pass abortion rights legislation, he urged voters to elect more Democratic abortion rights supporters in November.

 The bill in question did not receive the votes of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who support legal abortion in most cases, or Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

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