Bloomberg TV reporting that Manchin will not support voting rights bill without republican support

[JohnSJ]

It is pretty clear now that the HR1 voting rights act is not going to happen in the Senate, and the only way to address the 42 states that have legislation to suppress voting will only happen through the Supreme Court, or winning more seats in the Senate, and maintaining the majority in the House, and the only way that will happen, in spite of those states trying to limit access to the voting booth, is to get out the vote in spite of those suppressive voting measures

[Phoenix61]

1. He's determined to keep the filibuster in tact. nt.

[4Q2u2]

2. Angus King

Come on down.

[OnDoutside]

6. I thought he was already down ?

[Beakybird]

3. They have to offer the guy a sweeter carrot.

If they gave WV $10,000 in pork for every man woman and child ....
There's got to be a way.

[catbyte]

4. I felt like I was being held hostage for 4 years.

It sucks that I still feel that way.

[lagomorph777]

5. ...by our own guy!

[Magoo48]

11. He's certainly not a liberal, not a moderate; he's not team player in my opinion.

If he must appease the democracy-challenged right wing, wtaf?
There’s nothing right on the right for them to offer, even if they wanted to join in.
The right is wrong.
They’ve always been wrong.
When was the last time conservatives did a damn thing for working people, poor people, or people who don’t look like they do?

Manchin is a pain in the ass.

[lagomorph777]

13. He's a team player.

...but which team?

[Deminpenn]

7. Does he mean Rs in the senate or just regular R voters?

Because I'm pretty sure there are R voters who support voting rights.

[OnDoutside]

8. Keep a cool head people, let this all play out. And remember, HR1/VRA protects Manchin and other

Red State Dems, so he would be hurting himself.

[Silent3]

9. I sincerely doubt that Manchin is naive about where Republicans stand...

...so how the fuck does he explain his position? Saying you won't support a bill like this without Republican support is exactly equivalent to saying you don't support the bill yourself. There's no daylight between those two positions.

[Raven123]

10. Yep. He knows darned well the GOP will not support ANYTHING.

I am not sure of Manchin’s guiding principles. He’s been there long enough to know how Mitch works. Unless the Dems increase their majority in 2022, Manchin will continue to talk and the media will continue wasting time parsing his tortured language for clues as to his real opinions. Then he will feed them more garbage.

[JI7]

12. People need to start start doing what Rachel Maddow did yesterday

where she brought up his failure on gun control.

He is all about ego but nobody actually asks him questions or brings up things like she did.

They only ask him his opinion without challenging him in any way.

[themaguffin]

14. This is likely political theater.