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Voting Rights - The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the American People
Andi: I'm seeing a lot of it, and it's just, it's not great. Joe manshon made some news on the issue this week in one of his patented press gaggles that is both indecipherable and enraging. He said he'd be open to modest filibuster reforms such as changing the threshold from 60 votes to three fifths of senators present in the chamber. But he also said he doiesn't want to make those changes unless some republicans agree. A new bi partisan group of senators has been meeting to talk about reforming the electoral count act of 18 87. The white house, democratic leaders and activists are worried that this would be a distraction