On Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered a speech calling on Congress to overhaul the nation’s election laws by passing the Democrats’ “Freedom To Vote Act.”

“So I ask every elected official in America: how do you want to be remembered? …Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?… Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis? This is the moment to decide…” – President Joe Biden

President Biden framed the passage of the Democrats’ Freedom To Vote Act as a fight between “democracy and autocracy.” The address followed his January 6th address where he implied that Republican efforts to pass election integrity laws were an attack on democracy, and more specifically, the rights of African American voters.