Democrats push Manchin on ‘nuclear option’ for voting rights

Now that the “Build Back Broke” bill is dead, the Democrats are making another attempt to create one party rule in America. They want to use the nuclear option to change the filibuster rule, so that they can enact radical voting legislation. Such legislation would (among other things) enable non-citizens to vote in our elections, making it next to impossible for a Republican to win a national or even state election.

Senator Joe Manchin prevented the “Build Back Better” bill from passing. Now rational Americans must again contact Senator Manchin’s office, and demand that he not support legislation that would destroy our voting system.

Elections are the key for the Democrat party of treason. Everything else — inflation, COVID, Afghanistan, migrant invasion, illegal immigration, crushing taxes, critical race theory, leftist supremacism, jihad, antisemitism, gas prices, onerous regulation, etc etc – pale in comparison. Without free and fair elections, game over.

Don’t take your eye off the ball. The Democrats will wage war to institute and enshrine election fraud.

This is the next big fight. Ask your congressperson what they are doing to ensure free and fair elections? What actions are they taking towards election reform?

Democrats are re-doubling their efforts to seize control of local elections.

They want bureaucrats in Washington to ban voter ID and weaken the security of the ballot.

It won't work. They are losing the election integrity debate, and the American people see it.

— GOP (@GOP) December 18, 2021

Democrats push Manchin on ‘nuclear option’ for voting rights

By The Hill, December 18, 2021

Senate Democrats are escalating pressure on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to get behind using the “nuclear option” to change the filibuster and break a months-long stalemate on voting rights legislation.

The flurry of talks — including dedicating a closed-door caucus lunch to the issue despite a public focus on passing President Biden’s climate and social spending bill — comes as Democrats are facing intense pressure to pass election legislation though there isn’t yet a clear path forward.

A group of Democrats, tapped by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), met with Manchin Tuesday as part of rolling discussions. But Manchin, simultaneously, is pushing for rules changes to be bipartisan and holding talks with Republicans, who are unlikely to support the sort of reform needed to get voting legislation passed.

Underscoring the frustration within the caucus, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) spoke out during the Democratic lunch, and separately on the Senate floor, about the need to pass voting rights legislation before taking up the Build Back Better legislation and that it would be “irresponsible” for Democrats not to act.

“I’m struck by the speed with which we decided to change the rules when it came to the economy,” he told reporters, referring to the one-time exemption for the debt ceiling. “But this has dragged on for months. Our democracy is clearly in peril.”

Warnock said that he had spoken to Democrats, including Manchin, over the weekend but that “Democrats have to decide — first of all it’s a moral question — but how do you tell the people, as they did in January and in November, to stand up and use their power and their voice if we won’t use ours?”

Warnock isn’t alone in wanting to move voting rights before the end of the year, which would require changing the rules with only Democratic votes.

“I say that we need to change the rules so that we can get voter protection legislation done,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), while acknowledging they didn’t yet have the votes to do so.

Tensions have been simmering for months among Democrats and outside groups about the inability to get voting rights and election reform legislation passed. The issue was viewed as a top priority when they retook control of both Congress and the White House in January, but multiple bills have run into the 60-vote legislative filibuster.

Schumer has vowed that he wants to pass voting rights by the end of the year and said Tuesday that there are “active discussions going on.”

“I think there’s a universal view in our caucus that we need to get something done. … There’s a strong belief in the Senate that we can restore the Senate, and at the same time, deal with voting rights, and that’s what we’re aiming to do,” he said.

 

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