.DeanObeidallah: With Democrats like Sen. Manchin, who needs Republicans?
's report indicates, the GOP is just getting warmed up, with nearly 100 bills pending in 2022 that would restrict voting, empower sham partisan “audits” and potentially nullify votes.
Second, by not passing federal voting rights legislation, there’s the intangible but very real zapping of enthusiasm in the Democratic base because of the sense that Democratic leaders aren’t exhibiting the “fierce urgency of now,” asput it, to address this issue. This is a sentiment I increasingly hear from callers to my SiriusXM radio show.
Even without the passage of Build Back Better and voting rights legislation, Democrats aren’t being made into lambs led to the slaughter in 2022; other issues could emerge between now and November that dominate the midterm. After all, in December 2019, as we were headed into the 2020 presidential election year, we had not even heard of the words “Covid-19,” but that election ended up being all about it.
It’s impossible to tell what Manchin’s end goal is in all of this, but he surely knows that in midterm elections, turnout is everything. No one has to tell Manchin that by blocking these two key pieces of legislation it will undoubtedly depress Democratic turnout — as well as give independent voters less of a reason to vote for Democratic congressional candidates in 2022.
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