Online Public Relations Thoughts

A coalition of voting rights groups won't attend President Biden's scheduled speech in Atlanta on voting rights. They are telling the President to stay home and to get legislation passed defending the right to vote.  It is an odd sort of PR message.  "We want action and not your visit."  What the coalition is forgetting is that the President needs to use his bully pulpit to spur movement.  The President's hands are tied by Congress and with the Senate so closely divided, Biden needs every vote on the Democratic side to get a bill passed.  Republicans won't help.  Biden's appeal to the nation is a way to put pressure on the Senate.  The coalition's boycott of Biden's speech doesn't help his efforts.  It looks bad and sends a message that can be easily misinterpreted -- and will be.