2022 elections. The steady march for sanity continues.
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Georgia Republicans advance map that aims to pick up House seat in redistricting
The plan, approved on a party-line vote, would dramatically reshape three districts in Atlanta’s eastern and northeastern suburbs — all of which are currently held by Democrats.
The victim is likely to be Rep. Lucy McBath (D), who first won election in 2018 in a district that currently includes parts of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Forsyth counties. Under the new plan, McBath’s seat would move north, surrendering voters in suburban Atlanta for new voters in Cherokee and Dawson counties.
Forsyth County gave former President Trump 66 percent of the vote last year, and Dawson County, which would move from Rep. Andrew Clyde’s (R) neighboring district, favored Trump by nearly 70 percentage points.
Republicans have long telegraphed that they were eyeing McBath’s district as a key takeover opportunity. To accomplish their goal, they moved a little under half of McBath’s constituents into another district.
“Georgia Republicans’ latest congressional gerrymander turns a competitive suburban district into a safe Republican one in a transparent ploy to remove a Black woman and a fighter for all of the 6th Congressional District — regardless of race or party — from Congress simply because Republicans know they can no longer compete in Atlanta’s suburbs,” said Lauren Groh-Wargo, a top adviser to Fair Fight PAC, the group affiliated with former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D).
Democrats are almost certain to sue over the new district lines if the state House follows the Senate’s lead and approves the maps.
The new Georgia lines make few other significant changes to current boundaries. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R) district would pick up new voters in suburban Cobb County, while Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R) inherits some of Greene’s voters in Pickens County, two moves unlikely to alter reliably Republican districts.
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D) is likely to have picked up a few new Republican-leaning voters; the legislature’s map flips Crisp County, which backed Trump with 62 percent of the vote, to Rep. Austin Scott’s (R) district in exchange for Thomas County, which is slightly larger and gave Trump a slightly lower vote share, 59 percent.
Bishop won reelection in 2020 in his largely rural, heavily Black district at the same time Biden carried 56 percent of the vote there.
McBath would join a handful of other Democrats in Congress targeted by Republican mapmakers for political extinction. In North Carolina, Republican-drawn maps eliminated a district held by Rep. Kathy Manning (D), and substantially redrew a seat held by Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D), who subsequently announced he would retire from Congress.
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The plan, approved on a party-line vote, would dramatically reshape three districts in Atlanta’s eastern and northeastern suburbs — all of which are currently held by Democrats.
The victim is likely to be Rep. Lucy McBath (D), who first won election in 2018 in a district that currently includes parts of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Forsyth counties. Under the new plan, McBath’s seat would move north, surrendering voters in suburban Atlanta for new voters in Cherokee and Dawson counties.
Forsyth County gave former President Trump 66 percent of the vote last year, and Dawson County, which would move from Rep. Andrew Clyde’s (R) neighboring district, favored Trump by nearly 70 percentage points.
Republicans have long telegraphed that they were eyeing McBath’s district as a key takeover opportunity. To accomplish their goal, they moved a little under half of McBath’s constituents into another district.
“Georgia Republicans’ latest congressional gerrymander turns a competitive suburban district into a safe Republican one in a transparent ploy to remove a Black woman and a fighter for all of the 6th Congressional District — regardless of race or party — from Congress simply because Republicans know they can no longer compete in Atlanta’s suburbs,” said Lauren Groh-Wargo, a top adviser to Fair Fight PAC, the group affiliated with former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D).
Democrats are almost certain to sue over the new district lines if the state House follows the Senate’s lead and approves the maps.
The new Georgia lines make few other significant changes to current boundaries. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R) district would pick up new voters in suburban Cobb County, while Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R) inherits some of Greene’s voters in Pickens County, two moves unlikely to alter reliably Republican districts.
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D) is likely to have picked up a few new Republican-leaning voters; the legislature’s map flips Crisp County, which backed Trump with 62 percent of the vote, to Rep. Austin Scott’s (R) district in exchange for Thomas County, which is slightly larger and gave Trump a slightly lower vote share, 59 percent.
Bishop won reelection in 2020 in his largely rural, heavily Black district at the same time Biden carried 56 percent of the vote there.
McBath would join a handful of other Democrats in Congress targeted by Republican mapmakers for political extinction. In North Carolina, Republican-drawn maps eliminated a district held by Rep. Kathy Manning (D), and substantially redrew a seat held by Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D), who subsequently announced he would retire from Congress.
Georgia Republicans advance map that aims to pick up House seat in redistricting
The Georgia state Senate on Friday approved a plan to redraw political boundaries that would likely cost a Democratic member of Congress her seat, the latest Republican-led effort to bolster the pa…
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hanimmal
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Chris Christie is a shit bag. Maybe not Jim Jordan trying to keep victims of sexual abuse from talking level shit bag, but allowing a woman to go to jail for Christie's shutting down of a bridge to ruin thousands of people's commute for political retribution level of asshole.
hanimmal
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Fucking Morning Joe gets so annoying.
He went on a little sarcastic rant about how Democrats & Billionaires focus on the local elections so they can do things like stop Gerrymandering.
No shit Sherlock.
All the Democrats need to do, is figure out how to overcome Sinclair broadcasting LAPR'ing as 'local' news tv coverage, Fox News for national political disinformation, Hate Radio while people are stuck in traffic on their drive to and from work, the destruction of local news papers as they get vacuumed up and shut down and replaced by propaganda rags like Epoch Times. And all that is before the militarized propaganda trolls cat fishing as their neighbors convincing these people that Democrats murder babies and that even though Republicans have started a Recession every time they have power they are somehow better for the economy.
And dick heads like Joe pissing themselves about inflation every two minutes when they are not crying about Afghanistan, or supply chain issues from the pandemic, Democrat not having 100% movement on everything they are doing to stabilize our nation, basically any steaming pile of crap Trump and the Republicans left for the Democrats to clean up while they sat back and trolled them about.
He went on a little sarcastic rant about how Democrats & Billionaires focus on the local elections so they can do things like stop Gerrymandering.
No shit Sherlock.
All the Democrats need to do, is figure out how to overcome Sinclair broadcasting LAPR'ing as 'local' news tv coverage, Fox News for national political disinformation, Hate Radio while people are stuck in traffic on their drive to and from work, the destruction of local news papers as they get vacuumed up and shut down and replaced by propaganda rags like Epoch Times. And all that is before the militarized propaganda trolls cat fishing as their neighbors convincing these people that Democrats murder babies and that even though Republicans have started a Recession every time they have power they are somehow better for the economy.
And dick heads like Joe pissing themselves about inflation every two minutes when they are not crying about Afghanistan, or supply chain issues from the pandemic, Democrat not having 100% movement on everything they are doing to stabilize our nation, basically any steaming pile of crap Trump and the Republicans left for the Democrats to clean up while they sat back and trolled them about.
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Hiddengems
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Dems need to change policy. They ran so far left the republicans are moving in on old center positions held by dems and Claiming them. Meanwhile dems are going on tv saying they lost in Virginia because "52% of them are racist".
Rurumo
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The Democratic party is the only one left that has any moderates. You are making blanket statements based on the opinion of an individual, can't you see the problem with that? I can't stand either party, but the Republicans have purged their ranks of any dissent which is dangerous.
hanimmal
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Because you said so?
I think it is more likely that you are just lying to slander Democrats online so that the right wing hate mongers have any chance at all at keeping their voters brainwashed.
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17 Democratic state AGs back challenge to Florida voting limits
Led by the District of Columbia and New York, the group filed friend-of-court briefs in a trio of federal lawsuits that claim Florida’s SB 90 illegally restricts access to the ballot box.
“Florida’s discriminatory law is another attempt to make it harder for some in the state to vote, especially voters of color,” DC attorney general Karl Racine said in a statement. “The myth of voter fraud has been debunked countless times, yet we continue to see states creating laws based on false claims to uphold this lie for political reasons. In reality, these election laws that supposedly prevent and eliminate voter fraud instead simply encourage voter suppression.”
Florida’s controversial SB 90 drew immediate lawsuits upon being signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in May after Florida Republicans passed the measure on near party-line votes.
Among the limits imposed by the Florida measure are new restrictions on the use of absentee ballot drop boxes, additional requirements on voters seeking alternatives to in-person voting and a ban on members of the public distributing food or water to those waiting in line to vote.
GOP proponents argue the new restrictions are needed to ensure election integrity and bolster voter confidence. Critics, however, deride the measures as a pretext for suppressing likely Democratic voters, including racial minorities, using former President Trump’s repeated lies about the 2020 election being subject to widespread fraud as justification.
In court papers, the Democratic states said their experience in administering elections with broad access to vote-by-mail and drop boxes shows that the franchise can be expanded without risk to election security.
The blue state attorneys general have asked the courts to reject Florida’s claim for summary judgment in the litigation. In addition to D.C. and New York, the other signatories to the filings, also known as "amici," are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
“Florida’s claims of voter fraud and low voter confidence are unsupported by the record, undermined by the Amici States’ experiences, and, in any event, insufficient to justify the burdens imposed,” they wrote.
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Led by the District of Columbia and New York, the group filed friend-of-court briefs in a trio of federal lawsuits that claim Florida’s SB 90 illegally restricts access to the ballot box.
“Florida’s discriminatory law is another attempt to make it harder for some in the state to vote, especially voters of color,” DC attorney general Karl Racine said in a statement. “The myth of voter fraud has been debunked countless times, yet we continue to see states creating laws based on false claims to uphold this lie for political reasons. In reality, these election laws that supposedly prevent and eliminate voter fraud instead simply encourage voter suppression.”
Florida’s controversial SB 90 drew immediate lawsuits upon being signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in May after Florida Republicans passed the measure on near party-line votes.
Among the limits imposed by the Florida measure are new restrictions on the use of absentee ballot drop boxes, additional requirements on voters seeking alternatives to in-person voting and a ban on members of the public distributing food or water to those waiting in line to vote.
GOP proponents argue the new restrictions are needed to ensure election integrity and bolster voter confidence. Critics, however, deride the measures as a pretext for suppressing likely Democratic voters, including racial minorities, using former President Trump’s repeated lies about the 2020 election being subject to widespread fraud as justification.
In court papers, the Democratic states said their experience in administering elections with broad access to vote-by-mail and drop boxes shows that the franchise can be expanded without risk to election security.
The blue state attorneys general have asked the courts to reject Florida’s claim for summary judgment in the litigation. In addition to D.C. and New York, the other signatories to the filings, also known as "amici," are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
“Florida’s claims of voter fraud and low voter confidence are unsupported by the record, undermined by the Amici States’ experiences, and, in any event, insufficient to justify the burdens imposed,” they wrote.
17 Democratic state AGs back challenge to Florida voting limits
A group of 17 Democratic state attorneys general have thrown their weight behind court challenges aimed at Florida’s restrictive, GOP-crafted voting law, saying the measure threatens to suppress th…
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DOJ sues over Texas' redistricting plan
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued Texas over the state’s new redistricting plan, alleging its map illegally undermines minority groups’ right to vote.
DOJ officials said that while the number of Latino and Black voters in Texas grew significantly over the last decade, the state’s new map dilutes minority voting strength in violation of federal law.
“The department’s career voting law experts have assessed Texas's new redistricting plans and determined that they include districts that violate the Voting Rights Act,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit.
The new legal challenge comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in October signed into law a new congressional map that independent analysts say gives Republicans an unfair partisan advantage.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued Texas over the state’s new redistricting plan, alleging its map illegally undermines minority groups’ right to vote.
DOJ officials said that while the number of Latino and Black voters in Texas grew significantly over the last decade, the state’s new map dilutes minority voting strength in violation of federal law.
“The department’s career voting law experts have assessed Texas's new redistricting plans and determined that they include districts that violate the Voting Rights Act,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit.
The new legal challenge comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in October signed into law a new congressional map that independent analysts say gives Republicans an unfair partisan advantage.
DOJ sues over Texas’s redistricting plan
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued Texas over the state’s new redistricting plan, alleging its map illegally undermines minority groups’ right to vote.DOJ officials said that while the …
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PopAndSonGrows
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The 2020-2024 US Presidency is basically a "bye week" for this country. One really long, drawn out bye week.
CatHedral
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Headline should have beenDOJ sues over Texas' redistricting plan
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued Texas over the state’s new redistricting plan, alleging its map illegally undermines minority groups’ right to vote.
DOJ officials said that while the number of Latino and Black voters in Texas grew significantly over the last decade, the state’s new map dilutes minority voting strength in violation of federal law.
“The department’s career voting law experts have assessed Texas's new redistricting plans and determined that they include districts that violate the Voting Rights Act,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit.
The new legal challenge comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in October signed into law a new congressional map that independent analysts say gives Republicans an unfair partisan advantage.
DOJ sues over Texas’s redistricting plan
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued Texas over the state’s new redistricting plan, alleging its map illegally undermines minority groups’ right to vote.DOJ officials said that while the …
Garland, in surprise move, does something.
do something already!..i agree with this; we have lost opportunity.
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Biden’s Democrats Are a Joke and So Are Trump’s Republicans—Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Both parties seem committed to minority status. But like Leonard Cohen said, one of them cannot be wrong.
CatHedral
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I’m getting pissed off that team Biden is showing no aggression when it is so badly needed.do something already!..i agree with this; we have lost opportunity.
Biden’s Democrats Are a Joke and So Are Trump’s Republicans—Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Both parties seem committed to minority status. But like Leonard Cohen said, one of them cannot be wrong.
The party needs a Kennedy-class contender for ‘24. Joe is not proving up to the task. While most of his inaction can be laid at the feet of Congressional obstructionists, not all can. His mishandling of Afghanistan I was willing to call a fluke, but there is too much else with so very little to show for it, after nine and a half months.
He’s better but not very good.
CunningCanuk
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I’d say he’s doing pretty good considering he’s working with a practically dysfunctional Congress and a large portion of his fellow countrymen being ignorant assholes.
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So much for sanity.
Georgia governor candidate Perdue says he wouldn't have certified 2020 election results
Georgia gubernatorial candidate and former Sen. David Perdue (R) said on Wednesday that he would not have certified Georgia's 2020 presidential election results.
"Not with the information that was available at the time and not with the information that has come out now. They had plenty of time to investigate this. And I wouldn’t have signed it until those things had been investigated and that’s all we were asking for," Perdue told Axios.
He added if he had been governor at the time, he would have called for a special session of the state legislature to "protect and fix what was wrong for the January election" rather than to change the election's results, Axios reported.
There has been no evidence of widespread fraud impacting Georgia's election results, which were counted three times, including once by hand, Axios added.
Earlier this week, former President Trump, who has claimed without substantiation that practices like mail-in ballots contribute to widespread voter fraud, issued a statement saying, "David Perdue has my Complete and Total Endorsement. He will not let you down!"
His statement added that Perdue would “secure the Elections,” and detailed other policies the former president believed Perdue would carry out if elected as governor.
Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said around the time of the election that if a special session, like the one Perdue mentioned, had overturned the November results it would have been "nullifying the will of the people," Axios noted.
Earlier this year, Raffensperger called for a bipartisan federal election reform commission to review the U.S. electoral system.
“Let them really work on it, do a lot of public policy debates, take a year or two but get it right. I think it's been now 16 years since the last report. We’re probably ready for another one,” Raffensperger told Axios at the time.
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Georgia governor candidate Perdue says he wouldn't have certified 2020 election results
Georgia gubernatorial candidate and former Sen. David Perdue (R) said on Wednesday that he would not have certified Georgia's 2020 presidential election results.
"Not with the information that was available at the time and not with the information that has come out now. They had plenty of time to investigate this. And I wouldn’t have signed it until those things had been investigated and that’s all we were asking for," Perdue told Axios.
He added if he had been governor at the time, he would have called for a special session of the state legislature to "protect and fix what was wrong for the January election" rather than to change the election's results, Axios reported.
There has been no evidence of widespread fraud impacting Georgia's election results, which were counted three times, including once by hand, Axios added.
Earlier this week, former President Trump, who has claimed without substantiation that practices like mail-in ballots contribute to widespread voter fraud, issued a statement saying, "David Perdue has my Complete and Total Endorsement. He will not let you down!"
His statement added that Perdue would “secure the Elections,” and detailed other policies the former president believed Perdue would carry out if elected as governor.
Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said around the time of the election that if a special session, like the one Perdue mentioned, had overturned the November results it would have been "nullifying the will of the people," Axios noted.
Earlier this year, Raffensperger called for a bipartisan federal election reform commission to review the U.S. electoral system.
“Let them really work on it, do a lot of public policy debates, take a year or two but get it right. I think it's been now 16 years since the last report. We’re probably ready for another one,” Raffensperger told Axios at the time.
Georgia governor candidate Perdue says he wouldn’t have certified 2020 election results
Georgia gubernatorial candidate and former Sen. David Perdue (R) said on Wednesday that he would not have certified Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. “Not with the info…
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Manchin quietly discusses Senate rules changes with Republicans
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key Democratic holdout on reforming the filibuster, is discussing small changes to Senate rules with Republicans.
Manchin’s discussions with GOP colleagues — which haven’t been previously reported — come as Democrats are trying to win over their conservative colleague on their push to “restore the Senate,” including making changes to the 60-vote legislative filibuster.
Members of GOP leadership told The Hill that Manchin had reached out to them to float potential ideas with an eye toward making it easier to get votes and bills to the floor.
“Most of us would argue that the only thing that it takes to get the Senate working better is behavioral change. … But he is trying to come up with some fairly, I would say, creative ideas about the rules,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican.
Thune added that Manchin had spoken with other GOP senators and that there was a “considerable amount of interest in trying to make the Senate functional.”
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) confirmed that Manchin had also talked to him.
“You know I had a lot of discussions with Schumer on this topic when he was the ranking member on Rules and I was the chairman and we could reopen that discussion," he added, referring to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Manchin says he hasn’t changed his mind on the filibuster, where he’s opposed to nixing the 60-vote threshold altogether or making a carveout. But, asked by The Hill if he was open to smaller changes like making it easier to get amendment votes or bills to the floor, Manchin indicated that talks are ongoing.
“I’ve been talking to Republicans and Democrats, how do we make the place work, so we can treat each other like human beings and try to get something accomplished and do the job we are supposed to do,” Manchin said.
Manchin added that they were talking about “any rules that would basically help this place work.”
The discussions involving Manchin and GOP senators come as a group of Democratic senators, tapped by Schumer, are trying to come up with rules change proposals that would help break the stalemate on voting rights and elections legislation, which has been filibustered by Republicans.
Two Democratic senators taking part in the Democratic-only discussions — Sens. Tim Kaine (Va.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) — indicated that Manchin’s talks were a separate effort and said that they had not dispatched him to go talk with Republicans.
“You know, Joe will be Joe. … We don’t control anybody around here,” Tester said.
Thune floated that Manchin’s talks could be a back channel effort to dial down pressure on Democrats to make changes to the filibuster.
“I think part of maybe his motivation too is just to take the pressure off of that and if we could get some things done that would make it more conducive to accomplishment then he wouldn’t feel, and others wouldn't feel, as much pressure to nuke the filibuster,” Thune said.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key Democratic holdout on reforming the filibuster, is discussing small changes to Senate rules with Republicans.
Manchin’s discussions with GOP colleagues — which haven’t been previously reported — come as Democrats are trying to win over their conservative colleague on their push to “restore the Senate,” including making changes to the 60-vote legislative filibuster.
Members of GOP leadership told The Hill that Manchin had reached out to them to float potential ideas with an eye toward making it easier to get votes and bills to the floor.
“Most of us would argue that the only thing that it takes to get the Senate working better is behavioral change. … But he is trying to come up with some fairly, I would say, creative ideas about the rules,” said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican.
Thune added that Manchin had spoken with other GOP senators and that there was a “considerable amount of interest in trying to make the Senate functional.”
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) confirmed that Manchin had also talked to him.
“You know I had a lot of discussions with Schumer on this topic when he was the ranking member on Rules and I was the chairman and we could reopen that discussion," he added, referring to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Manchin says he hasn’t changed his mind on the filibuster, where he’s opposed to nixing the 60-vote threshold altogether or making a carveout. But, asked by The Hill if he was open to smaller changes like making it easier to get amendment votes or bills to the floor, Manchin indicated that talks are ongoing.
“I’ve been talking to Republicans and Democrats, how do we make the place work, so we can treat each other like human beings and try to get something accomplished and do the job we are supposed to do,” Manchin said.
Manchin added that they were talking about “any rules that would basically help this place work.”
The discussions involving Manchin and GOP senators come as a group of Democratic senators, tapped by Schumer, are trying to come up with rules change proposals that would help break the stalemate on voting rights and elections legislation, which has been filibustered by Republicans.
Two Democratic senators taking part in the Democratic-only discussions — Sens. Tim Kaine (Va.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) — indicated that Manchin’s talks were a separate effort and said that they had not dispatched him to go talk with Republicans.
“You know, Joe will be Joe. … We don’t control anybody around here,” Tester said.
Thune floated that Manchin’s talks could be a back channel effort to dial down pressure on Democrats to make changes to the filibuster.
“I think part of maybe his motivation too is just to take the pressure off of that and if we could get some things done that would make it more conducive to accomplishment then he wouldn’t feel, and others wouldn't feel, as much pressure to nuke the filibuster,” Thune said.
Manchin quietly discusses Senate rules changes with Republicans
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key Democratic holdout on reforming the filibuster, is discussing small changes to Senate rules with Republicans.Manchin’s discussions with GOP colleagues — which haven’…
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