progressives are now very clearly losing patience, calling on president biden directly to get more involved. some even signaling they could make moves to block the president s signature strkt plan if something doesn t change. cnn s manu raju joining me now from capitol hill. manu, mitch mcconnell said last night there is nothing broken, his words with regards to the country s voting system and that s why republicans aren t budges. if nothing is broken, why are more than a dozen republican-led states passing restrictions to make it harder for people to vote? we are seeing actions in a number of state in the aftermath of what happened in 2020, states expanding access to mail-in voting and donald trump railing against mail-in voting, claiming and lying that the election cuss stolen. a number of states pairing back on those rules making it more
greatest impact. john harwood, thank you. on capitol hill pressure is growing on democrats in congress to counter this continued attack on voting rights that we re seeing in so many states. pressure coming from outside washington and from within. just yesterday president biden called out two moderate democrats, senators manchin and sinema for being roadblocks to voting rights protections. cnn s manu raju joining me from the hill. he didn t call them out by name, but the message seemed pretty clear. how are the comments from president biden landing over there today? joe manchin and kyrsten sinema s office both are declining to comment on this. right now the senate is on recess. what the president said is also not accurate. he accused those two senators of voting more with republicans than with democrats when, in fact, they vote overwhelmingly with democrats, but do break with democrats on key issues, namely whether or not to gut the
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since the inauguration. but many lawmakers in his own party aren t ready to offer endorsements just yet. senior congressional correspondent manu raju joining is us. you re doing polling of republicans up on capitol hill. what are they telling you? reporter: republican i talked to are not ready to enforce president trump despite him declared candidate raising money, holding campaign rallies. a lot of republicans are not sure that he s going to run for re-election. others are not sure what the mounting problems he has legally and the mueller investigation, what they may amount to standing for re-election and whether or not he ll be strong enough to win and whether he ll face a primary challenge, as well. republicans made a surprise declaration to me that they are not sure that they re going to endorse trump despite it being almost automatic that members of congress endorse presidents of their own party but not in time and at least not right now. are you prepared to endorse the presiden