Sen. Joe Manchin won’t support sweeping voting rights package, instead pushes for bill with narrower scope
Sen. Joe Manchin will not back the sweeping elections and campaign finance overhaul sought by Democrats to blunt Republican state-level efforts to restrict voting access, a spokeswoman for the West Virginia Democrat confirmed Wednesday. He suggested instead pushing legislation that would have a narrower scope as the path forward.
The major voting rights package, called the For the People Act, would mandate 15 days of early voting, allow same-day voter registration and limit states’ ability to curb mail-in voting and the use of ballot boxes. It also rewrites federal campaign finance rules, sets out new ethics requirements for the president and seeks to end partisan gerrymandering.
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With its razor-thin margins in Congress and an aging caucus, why isn’t the party acting with more urgency to protect voting rights from Republican assault?
My Turn: Why is the Loser still loved?
Published: 5/13/2021 4:26:06 PM
I so wish I could say he is gone, and good riddance. But it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that he’s not, that he intends to wreak havoc wherever and whenever he can. He no longer has that top spot in the real world or in the nether world of social media, but he still rules over his fervent believers and his party.
He’s the Loser now, the one who lost but cannot tolerate losing so much so that he’s still trying to overturn the decision that voters made last November. The Loser will do whatever it takes to turn that loss into a win, to convince his people of the Big Lie, that President Biden cheated somehow and that’s why he’s sitting in the White House now and the Loser is not. This can only lead to more violence like that which he instigated on Jan. 6.
Blog By Craig Bannister | May 13, 2021 | 3:43pm EDT
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), a key vote in the 50-50 Senate, says he won’t support his party’s H.R. 1 bill – but, he would back a scaled-back version of Democrats’ efforts to overhaul and federalize elections.
Manchin prefers the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to the Democrats’ “For The People” (H.R. 1) bill. But, even then, Manchin has “vowed that he would not bring the he bill to the floor for consideration unless it has bipartisan backing,” ABC News reports.
Passing a bill that would impose federal voting standards on all 50 states is “something that can be done; it should be done,” Manchin told ABC News Correspondent Rachael Scott on Tuesday.