he would not support a bill unless he could get some republican votes too. in the spirit of bipartisanship, he wrote letter with republican senator about the importance of both sides coming together for federal voting rights legislation. specifically, the re-authorization of the voting rights act that back in day was like a huge bipartisan thing. not so much anymore. this was joe manchin's grand bargain on voting rights. he said this is too ambitious. we need to work across the aisle. he tempered his own party's sort of big ambitious goals to bring republican senators in the fold. surely thought there's only two big play jor political parties in the united states and they will come together with me and do the bare minimum to sure up democracy. you probably see where i'm going here. today the senate voted on a motion to proceed to debate on freedom to vote act. not to pass it, just debate it. every single republican voted