harvesting, no voter id, does away with states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. it s just a bad idea and it s a problem that most republicans are not going to sign they re trying to fix a problem most republicans have a different view of. chris: now, joe manchin would say, look, a lot of the stuff that you just objected to is not in my bill. his is a stripped down version. he doesn t talk about an independent commission. he just says ban partisan gerrymandering and as you know the constitution does provide for federal oversight of state elections. here s the practical question here. if you kill if republicans vote as it appears you re going to, to kill the manchin version of voting rights. republicans already voted to kill the bipartisan january 6 commission, looking into the insurrection at the capitol, do you run the risk that manchin and a couple other moderate senators will say look,
harvesting, no voter id, does away with states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. it s just a bad idea and it s a problem that most republicans are not going to sign they re trying to fix a problem most republicans have a different view of. chris: now, joe manchin would say, look, a lot of the stuff that you just objected to is not in my bill. his is a stripped down version. he doesn t talk about an independent commission. he just says ban partisan gerrymandering and as you know the constitution does provide for federal oversight of state elections. here s the practical question here. if you kill if republicans vote as it appears you re going to, to kill the manchin version of voting rights. republicans already voted to kill the bipartisan january 6 commission, looking into the insurrection at the capitol, do you run the risk that manchin and a couple other moderate senators will say look,
holiday, it makes automatic voter registration by motor vehicles, and it dropped something republicans really hated like the harvest provisions or things around federal funding of elections. this is a sweet spot for manchin. it s been fairly well received by his fellow democrats so far. how is it going to be received by republicans? because before this, there was that one republican we knew of, lisa murkowski, who was on board with it, but now you have senator mcconnell saying he s not for it at all, not that he was before it. reporter: yeah, senate republicans lined up today literally in a studio in the capitol for a show of force both against the manchin version of for the people and the original version. mcconnell said manchin s version is still totally unacceptable to republicans. and i think you have to understand, geoff, this is not an issue like infrastructure where there is maybe somewhere in the middle the two sides can
meet, they just disagree on how to pay for it or the scope or what have you. there is arguably a vast majority of republican senators who firmly believe the federal government should stay out of the kind of running of elections that this for the people act does. they don t want federal fingerprints on it at all, and they re not willing to talk about that any further than that. so manchin, you know, if his version is accepted by senate democrats, it unifies one party, but it also unifies the other party here. so i think this has a short-term political impact where, when this is brought to the floor next week, you might see all democrats united and at least trying to move forward on debate on this which had not been the case beforehand. but republicans are going to stand shoulder to shoulder. you ll see all 50 republicans voting on even the manchin version of this. if you want to see the for the people act, if you think this is