Joe backs moving All-Star Game

President Biden said he would “strongly support” Major League Baseball pulling its 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta to protest the new Georgia voting law.

The Major League Baseball Players Association has floated the possibility of relocating the July exhibition game to protest the law, which, among other things, requires photo IDs for absentee voting and shortens the absentee-voting period.

“I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,” Biden told ESPN late Wednesday. “I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They’re leaders.”

Biden went on to characterize the law, which also prohibits people from giving would-be voters food and water as they wait in line to cast their ballots, as “Jim Crow on steroids.”

“Imagine passing a law saying you cannot provide water or food for someone standing in line to vote. Can’t do that? C’mon,” the president said.

“Or you’re going to close a polling place at 5 o’clock when working people just get off ? This is all about keeping working folks and ordinary folks that I grew up with from being able to vote.”

On Thursday, Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp fired back, claiming that Biden’s remarks were designed to distract attention from the crisis at the US-Mexico border and congressional Democrats’ push for their own election-reform law.

“Joe Biden needs to focus on things he can control, like the southern border,” Kemp told Fox News. “It’s a distraction . . . and we’re going to continue to fight that.”

Facing threats of boycotts from activist groups, Georgia-based corporations, such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, have issued statements against the law.