“If President Biden was going to make a speech calling for its passage, more important than doing it in Georgia would’ve been actually doing it in the Senate at one of the Dem caucus meetings, which by the way would’ve allowed them to hear his speech at breakfast and go out and vote by lunchtime,” said Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, a group credited with helping to flip the state for Biden in 2020…

Failure on voting rights could prove more devastating, threatening to harden perceptions among the Democrats’ activist base that the president has squandered limited time for achieving progressive policy goals. Before the president’s trip, voting rights advocates expressed frustration that he might skirt detailed prescriptions for how wants the Senate rules to change, amounting to a push that’s too little, too late.

“How far is the president willing to go and how specific is the president willing to get?” said Tré Easton, deputy director of Battle Born Collective, a left-leaning group that tries to steer progressive policies through Congress. “We just got to the point of him being comfortable with a carveout of the filibuster for voting rights, but it took 12 months to get there.”