“This is of the highest priority for us, the sanctity of the vote,” Pelosi said Friday at a news conference.
Democrats view the bills as their best chance to blunt the impact of a wave of restrictive voting laws adopted in Republican-controlled states this year in the name of election security. The GOP push was fueled by former President Donald Trump s false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
Yet despite the flurry of work on voting legislation, Democrats still face the same challenge as before: a Republican-led filibuster in a 50-50 Senate that would require 10 GOP votes to overcome. Republicans oppose both voting bills, which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has blasted as unnecessary overreach that would infringe on states authority to conduct elections.
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