The Washington Post Fact-Checker gave its sharpest rating of Four Pinocchios to House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., for his claim this week that Democrats have never opposed voter ID laws. After all, Clyburn has long been a foe of voter ID laws passed in his own state," the Post's Glenn Kessler wrote, before rehashing a history of Clyburn likening various voter ID requirements to Jim Crow-era poll taxes. FLASHBACK: LIBERAL MEDIA HAVE LONG DECRIED VOTER ID LAWS AS VOTER SUPPRESSION, RACIST"I don’t know why you guys keep misrepresenting what I said," Clyburn said. He continued in that vein in the years since on photo ID requirements, Kessler noted, such as with his 2019 tweet that voter ID laws were "poll taxes." TOP DEMOCRATS FLIP-FLOP ON ‘RACIST’ VOTER ID LAWSIn 2020, he called them "voter suppression."

Source: Fox News July 15, 2021 19:41 UTC