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Democrats Finally Meet Hardball with Hardball
Deploy a brilliant bait and switch
In a completely unexpected turn of events, the Democrats moved the elections and ethics reform bill to the floor of the Senate yesterday and forced Republican senators to record their unanimous opposition to federal election reform.
“After months of partisan wrangling over the role of the federal government in elections, the outcome on Tuesday was hardly a surprise to either party. All 50 Senate Democrats voted to advance the federal legislation and open debate on other competing voting bills. All 50 Republicans united in denying it the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster, deriding it as a bloated federal overreach”.
Democrats finally meet hardball with hardball. The failure of the election reform bill is not an unexpected outcome, yet the Democrats asked the Republicans to kill the bill using the filibuster. The Senate vote opens up the door for the Democrats to transition the fight to the next stage while brutally exposing the Republican position on federal election reform.
How did we get here?
For weeks, the entire country was following bi-partisan discussions over Biden’s infrastructure proposal. The election reform bill was always considered to be dead-on-arrival due to Republican opposition. Thanks to the…
