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CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: When we return, Let Me Finish with the systematic effort by the Republican Party to keep the children of freed slaves from exercising the right that Abraham Lincoln himself died fighting to get. And you’re watching Hardball, the place for politics. […]

Then why do the people running the Republican Party, starting with Reince Priebus, oversee a national effort in three dozen states to create voter laws that make it hard for minorities, especially older minorities, from exercising the right that Abraham Lincoln died fighting to get them. This is a scar on the Grand Old Party.

Who can blame Marco Rubio out there as the candidate of youth and the future? But who can not blame the Republican Party itself from reverting to the bad old days of Jim Crow and poll taxes and bogus literacy tests? Practically everyone that comes to Washington, D.C., marches up the many steps of the Lincoln Memorial to pay tribute to the man who freed the slaves, the man who saved the Union, passed the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, and died pushing for voting rights for those who were freed.