Biden calls US voting rights fight the ‘test of our time’
14 July 2021 |
12:40 pm
US President Joe Biden says that protecting voting rights is "a test of our time," in a speech in Philadelphia. "The democratic threshold is liberty. With it anything is possible. Without it, nothing," he says.
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