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requiring voter i.d., including things like utility bills. is that a basis to start a conversation in your view? well, first of all, i appreciate what joe manchin is doing here. he s trying to find some middle ground. unfortunately what he does is what the larger bill s-1 does. it takes the election system and federal lies it. it s a federal takeover of the election system. as you know under the constitution is that a takeover? extraordinary circumstances. it would be telling my state of ohio that federal government tells the state how to spend transportation money sometimes. well, that s true, and there s federal money provided for that. in this case what he s saying to the state of ohio or your state of florida, we re going to decide how redistricting is done. we d be taking away from democracy, in effect, which right now in the state of ohio, our state legislature makes that decision. these are elected representatives. he wants to make it a federal responsibility throu
ground. unfortunately what he does is what the larger bill s 1 does, it takes the election system in this country and federalizes it, federal takeover of the election system. you re in luck. i have the best group of experts to break all of it down. geoff bennett at the white house, and jake sherman. start with infrastructure. where do things stand and how does the bipartisan group now get progressive democrats on board? stephanie, the sound you played a good reminder that 10 to 11 republicans does not equal 60 votes. you have to get all democrats on board. not all of them are on board. there are a couple ways to do this. first, they need to appease democrats that believe user fees like expanded gas tax amount to a tax hike on the working class. that s one policy problem. the bigger thing that moderates can do to win progressive support is commit to supporting
he s trying to find some middle ground. unfortunately, what he does is what the larger bill s-1 does, which is it takes the election system in this country and federalizes it, so it s a federal takeover of our election system. so this seems to be the main emerging republican argument. they re against anything done on the federal level. we heard the same thing this week from mitch mcconnell, with such a fundamental disagreement, how can democrats hope to get a bipartisan voting bill done? i think democrats are really starting to realize that theyerant going to get any republicans to come onboard with them. we have been seeing this unfold for months. we re seeing it happen at the state and local levels where voting rights are changing, and despite the push for more urgency, when manchin rolled out his dozen changes he would like to make to the election reforms bill, mcconnell came out and said we re not onboard. and so if you can t even really get those talks started as we re seeing