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You can take it out of the john lewis voting act and look at decriminalizing the state laws and put that into the electoral format and let's pass this bill and see what we can do about having an election this year that we can be proud of. >> you know, you say you hope these particular senators decide they will be on the right side of history. krysten sinema and joe manchin say they support these bills. sinema gave a speech on the senate floor and said breaking the filibuster would worsen the underlying disease of division in the country. you were with me the day that joe manchin wrote that op-...

Much harder. they are gerrymandering and drawing up partisan redistricting maps which is now something that's happening after the census. all those measures and they're doing it without the extra set of eyes and review from the department of justice, which is what the john lewis voting act was going to restore. so when people question, will there be a fair election, will there be an even playing field. these measures have passed and they are going to suppress the vote and make it harder for people to vote. i in florida used to have to register to vote by mail once every eight or ten years. now...

As we have been talking about tonight as we have been talking about for months, tomorrow the united states senate will finally begin debating voting rights protection. this senate is going to consider a combination of two bills that have already passed the house. freedom to vote act and john lewis voting act. democrats bundled together in a single vehicle and allow them to get around an initial republican filibuster. what happens after that? i don't know. we have been told to expect a vote on the bills tomorrow. that's now been pushed back. we're not sure when a vote will happen. debate will s...

Know. there does not exist in u.s. law an affirmative guarantee of the right to vote. so the right to vote act which i'm introducing this week establishes that affirmative guarantee of voting rights and it holds that any american citizen can challenge a state law which diminishes or restricts the right to vote which makes it harder to vote and require anyone to justify those restrictions and to demonstrate the least restrictive means of those ends. this is the right to vote act and it's a major krcontributiono the discussion in the u.s. senate on how we can safeguard this. >> how does this com...

Allegedly, Navarro was instrumental in hatching a plot to overturn the 2020 election. It appears to be an attempted coup, but Navarro insists it was both legal and justified. To support his assertion, he cites the Voting Act of 1887. There was no Voting Act of 1887.