Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – President Joe Biden made his case on Tuesday in a speech defending the voting rights of Americans against a slew of restrictive voting laws led by Republicans across the country.

Cries for Biden to do more in the fight for fair and free elections led the president to speak in front of a crowd of 400 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon.

Biden made sure to note that the 2020 presidential election saw people showing up in record numbers, despite the ongoing pandemic, something he called "extraordinary".

After dismissing the "big lie" that the election was stolen and calling the denial of a free and fair election that's accessible to all "the most Un-American, the most undemocratic, and the most patriotic" thing, President Biden zoned in on two pieces of legislation that could strengthen voting rights rather than reduce them: the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

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In the weeks and months prior to his speech at the National Constitution Center, the president has caught flack for not pushing Congress to at least debate the For The People Act, or HR 1, which stalled out in the senate after a Republican-led filibuster successfully killed the bill on the floor before it could even be looked at.

The bill itself aims to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to remove big money's influence in politics, limit partisan gerrymandering, and create new rules regarding ethics for those holding office.

Though it was killed by the age-old filibuster, Biden failed to even mention the tactic that keeps being used to grind so much legislative business to a halt.

Biden called passing HR 1 "a national imperative", and placed the burden back on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act to its "intended strength" after the Supreme Court stripped some of its protections for people of color in a July 1 ruling.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which has already passed the House, would set up public financing for federal elections, establish minimum standards for early and absentee polling times along with same-day registration, and put nonpartisan panels in charge of redistricting.

"As soon as Congress passes the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, I will sign it and let the whole world see it", President Biden declared.

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Biden also noted that legislation isn't the only tool at their disposal to get things done, sharing that AG Merrick Garland's Department of Justice will challenge the onslaught of voting rights acts in an effort to dismantle racially discriminatory laws and will "stay vigilant" in the fight for free and fair elections.

Texas got its own call-out by the president, who said, "They want to make it so hard and inconvenient, they hope people don't vote at all." He equated the hundreds of Republican-backed voter suppression bills to a "21st-Century Jim Crow assault."

Biden rounded things off by asking every American, regardless of party, to stand up together to help prevent the attack on the right to vote freely and fairly.

"No matter what, you can never stop the American people from voting. They will decide. And the power must always be with the people," President Biden concluded.