Republican Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., And Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, has beaten President Biden and Baseball in the Major League for the league’s decision to boycott Georgia over its election law – and asks if the harsh stance will be extended. to the Chinese communist regime.
MLB announced this week that it will relocate its All-Star Game and MLB concept in response to the state’s election law, which Republicans say will restore confidence in the state’s election, but Democrats claim it has access to the voice will limit.
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“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and is against restrictions on the ballot box,” Commissioner Robert D. Manfred said in a statement.
But Rubio referred to recent reports that the baseball organization had expanded its agreement with the Chinese Chinese Tencent to stream games in the authoritarian country – which staged protests against democracy. MLB first signed a deal with the technology giant in 2018.
“@MLB caves to put pressure and pull concept & # AllStarGame from Georgia on the same week they announce an agreement with a company backed by the genocide Communist Party of #China. & Anti-trust?” Rubio tweeted.
The law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp, places new restrictions on voting by mail, adds voter identity requirements and sets restrictions on the number of locations and working hours. It shortens the time for absenteeism and does a signature system in favor of providing a driver’s license, state ID or the last four digits of their social security number on the ballot boxes to prove identity.
The law stipulates two Saturdays of early voting before general elections, an increase of just one, and states that two Sundays are optional. The law also prohibits outside groups from handing out free food or water to those standing in line to vote. But the law provides for “self-service water from an unguarded container.”
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President Biden weighed in earlier this week, saying he would “strongly support MLB’s decision to move the game out of Georgia”.
“Look what happened across the board. The people who are most victimized are the people who are the leaders in these different sports, and that’s just not right,” Biden said in an interview with ESPN. “This is Jim Crow on steroids, which they do in Georgia and 40 other states.”
Crenshaw hit Biden in the comparison and asked if the president intends to pull the US out of the Beijing Olympics.
“Hi Joe Biden, are you going to boycott the Beijing Olympics for mass murder?” he asked. “Or do you just want to hurt small businesses in Atlanta that are planning the all-star game?”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Biden’s comments on Friday and denied that Biden was explicitly calling for a boycott.
“Well, the president has made it clear that he believes – that he has great concerns about the bill passed in Georgia. He has consistently argued that it should be easier and not harder to vote. And he believes that “A criminal act is to supply water to people waiting in line, it does not make it any easier. We also do not call from here for specific actions of businesses,” she said.
Asked later whether it would extend to Beijing, Paski said the U.S. Olympic Committee would play a “major role” in such a decision.
Fox News’ Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.