Statement·other·said 2026-05-04
“Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.”
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Falseby PolitiFact
2026-05-08Reasoning
PolitiFact rated this False: the 1965 Voting Rights Act was enacted in response to systemic disenfranchisement of Black voters through literacy tests, poll taxes, and violence in the Jim Crow South, not solely racial gerrymandering by the Democratic Party. The framing oversimplifies the historical record.
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