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All 50 republican senators voted that they should not even be a debate on the voting rights bill, the for the people act. also meant that republicans did not even consent to consider to even talking about a different version of the bill like for example the significantly reduced iteration of the bill proposed by conservative democratic senator peter manchin of west virginia. senator manchin has been the focus of so much attention on this issue because -- because of the peculiar angle he took on this thing. it was not just that manchin said that he did not want to vote for voting rights bill un...

Washington know that as long as the filibuster is there, democrats have no options in terms of backing a voting rights. clear on that, we put the republican party being clear on that in terms of whether there was going to be any federal protection for voting rights, including the field for republicans in the states to go maximalist and shameless, as far as they can on this issue. to target voting restrictions, and the administration of elections in a way that is maximally partisan to their advantage. and so, they proceed. unless democrats can figure out to get their heads around the fact that ...

Of the bill proposed by conservative democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia. senator manchin has been the focus of so much attention on this issue because of the peculiar angle he took on this thing. it wasn't just that manchin said he didn't want to vote for a voting rights bill unless it had republican support. he said that, but he also expressed this relentless and sort of inexplicable optimism that some republicans would support voting rights in the end. when he wrote his op-ed in his hometown paper recently expressing his opposition to any voting rights bill that didn't have repu...

Made this a post-policy party, and in that they've abandoned the pretense that policymaking, it matters altogether. >> and that means that there's no point in arguing policy with him? essentially? that the field of combat that they've decided is power only, it has to be power politics. >> exactly, right. republicans focus exclusively on the acquisition and maintenance of power. and then we have democratic senators treating them as if they were a member of the member party. that's leads to inevitable breakdowns. in fact, we've seen several breakdowns just this year on things like the first deba...

Georgia and any klobuchar of georgia were among many democrats today who spoke out in support of fs1, the for the people act, the big voting rights bill ahead of this afternoon's first big vote to put it on the senate floor for debate. it's already passed the house, if you can pass the senate it will go to president biden he will sign it into law. but that effort to get it on to the senate floor today for debates failed. all 50 republican senators voted against even starting the debate on the bill. this was a filibuster, they required 60 votes to get this thing on to the floor, and republicans...