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brooklynite

(94,596 posts) Fri Jan 14, 2022, 12:41 AM Jan 2022

Biden hosts Manchin and Sinema at White House to push for voting rights reforme [View all]

Source: Axios

President Biden met with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) at the White House on Thursday night after the senators reaffirmed their opposition to reforming the filibuster, the White House said.

Why it matters: Biden and other Democrats want the Senate's filibuster rules changed in order to pass voting rights legislation.

A White House spokesperson said Biden had "a candid and respectful exchange of views about voting rights" with Manchin and Sinema, according to a pool report.

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Biden hosts Manchin and Sinema at White House to push for voting rights reforme [View all] brooklynite Jan 2022 OP

Obstruction pays in attention. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2022 #1

Perhaps Sinema will put down her phone Colgate 64 Jan 2022 #2

Hopefully the ghost of LBJ will be there to strike some goddamn fear vercetti2021 Jan 2022 #3

Was thinking the same thing. Biden ahold eat raw onions before the meeting unblock Jan 2022 #4

My guess is they discussed BBB as the voting rights bills are now dead. LonePirate Jan 2022 #5

Manchin won't change parties because he would never win a Republican primary in WV. SunSeeker Jan 2022 #6

She's actually in just as bad a spot as manchin. She flipped from gqp to dem when she came out as PortTack Jan 2022 #9

Flipped? When was she ever a Republican? n/t thesquanderer Jan 2022 #14

Oh...she flipped from the green party...my mistake PortTack Jan 2022 #22

Good, AZ Dems have much better candidates available. nt SunSeeker Jan 2022 #17

He wouldn't have to win a Republican primary. He could choose to become/run as an Independent. n/t thesquanderer Jan 2022 #16

Without a "no Dem challenger" agreement with Dems like Bernie has, Manchin would be toast. SunSeeker Jan 2022 #18

I don't know enough about him or WV to know whether he could pull off... thesquanderer Jan 2022 #19

At this point it's hard to say which of the two is more dead. (n/t) thesquanderer Jan 2022 #15

The time for "respectful exchange of views" is long past. Fiendish Thingy Jan 2022 #7

He probably is...mentally anyway PortTack Jan 2022 #10

✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #11

how many times qazplm135 Jan 2022 #8

It's past time to find kacekwl Jan 2022 #12

And how does that help? FBaggins Jan 2022 #13

They could resign in disgrace and kacekwl Jan 2022 #20

That isn't how it works FBaggins Jan 2022 #21