they don t have an answer for climate change, clean air and clean water. they don t have an answer for how they re going to build a strong middle class, bring jobs home. all of it is about these culture wars that are about dividing and conquering and the scary thing is because of the long history of this and the mismatch of the sort of echo chamber, we are seeing it work in places like florida. seeing it work in places like arizona and increasingly in places like virginia. so democrats have to be very, very strong about making sure that we have a representative democracy that we make sure that the economic agenda that can actually deliver for the american people isn t stone walled and filibustered and prevented from changing the real odds here in this upcoming midterm. indeed. i mean, it s sort of turning the country into mississippi and texas and florida s right along with it. the thing about it, elie, is that, you know, because the supreme court has done a i don t
we re in the middle of that tough phase. i hope that when we go home now and hear from our constituents and they say, you know, this is a moment like it was in 1891 when the senate filibustered voting rights and it led to 75 years in which black americans were denied the ability to vote. this is a moment like that. you have to stand up to preserve the vision of our republic. and we ll come back and, hopefully, have those 50 votes. so we are not giving up. you were on the floor tonight talking in favor of the talking filibuster. that failed, too. and there was a moment when senator manchin asked if there could be a talking filibuster without a rules change. i just want to play the end of your exchange with him. watch this. i understand the way this rule reads now, sir, during which all amendments, motions and points of order are not in order and any appeals shall be determined without debate. no amendments whatsoever?
when the senate filibustered voting rights and it led to 75 years in which black americans were denied the ability to vote. this is a moment like that. you have to stand up to preserve the vision of our republic. and we ll come back and, hopefully, have those 50 votes. so we are not giving up you were on the floor tonight talking in favor of the talking filibuster. that failed, too. and there was a moment when senator manchin asked if there could be a talking filibuster without a rules change. i just want to play the end of your exchange with him. watch this. i understand the way this rule reads now, sir, during which all amendments, motions and points of order are not in order and any appeals shall be determined without debate. no amendments whatsoever? and the vision, the vision of this that s the way what we re voting on right now. excuse me. go ahead. i m saying that s what we are voting on right now. what we are voting on right now is to go to final passage
worthwhile, but no one would be confused that it would be sufficient to deal with the breadth of the challenges the voting rights emerging around the country in red states. so it seems, at least according to joe manchin, that there s more support for this electoral count act. and i am sure critics will ask, why protect the results of an election, while not protecting the rights of voters? i m referring to the voting rights bill? that is the question. look, there s no reason not to clarify the electoral count act. but while it may be necessary for 2024, it s hardly sufficient to guarantee a free and fair vote when you have so many states that are going down several tracks. they are making it harder for voters to vote, increasing partisan control over the administration and the tabulation of the results. and as i said, you have seen a dramatic move in the republican party. don t forget what happened just a few weeks ago. it wasn t that republicans only filibustered and blocked the de
other kinds of denialism. what does this mean to many democrats? bolstering the guardrails of democracy by creating access to the ballot box, guaranteeing it in all 50 states. a heated pitched battle for voting rights legislation that passed the house and filibustered in the senate. republicans don t accept that thinking. they don t believe american democracy is fundamentally under threat. they believe there are laws restricting elections and states around the country are okay and they should be able to run their own election laws, roy blunt who i talked to said it would be minimizing the plight of ukrainians to compare what they re going through fighting and fending off russian muscles, raining down on their cities on a daily basis killing thousands and displacing more than a million so far. it is minimizing that to compare that to a political battle in the united states over voting rights. hallie? thank you for that. appreciate it. coming up after the break, what a spokesperson for