he s behind this bill. it s a pretty straightforward piece of legislation. he has talked to republicans, there are, you know there are republicans he s had conversations with that, you know, they are not going to go anywhere. republicans, even the moderate republicans, feel this is an attempt by democrats to nationalize elections and enshrine an advantage for them. there s a huge partisan gap here and manchin by himself is not going to be able to overcome that. blaine, let s go to georgia. voting rights groups say they are done with words, they want an actual plan from the president. what does that mean? break it down. reporter: stephanie, they want a concrete plan. they want some sort of a strategy on how they re going to move this from legislation from the president s desk. i spoke yesterday with the coo of new georgia project, a group that spent countless hours organizing people, getting people to the polls, registering people to vote and essentially played a large role for fl
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really calls for changing the rules of the u.s. senate. now, so far they re not convinced. but we re going to watch this all take place over the next couple of days. around 10:30 this morning there will be a vote in the house of representatives, they will send over that voting rights legislation to the u.s. senate. now, once it gets over to the senate there will be a vote on both the john lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. those pieces of legislation have the support of all 50 democrats. but what they don t have is ten republican senators willing to join them. so, at that point once those pieces of legislation fail, we expect that chuck schumer the majority leader will move to change the senate rules. this is when he needs unity of the democratic caucus. this is why joe biden is coming up to the u.s. senate today to try to convince those two moderate democrats to change their minds on the filibuster. but so far, there s no evidence they are moving in his
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those who are looking in, the bill that the president endorsed today the freedom to vote act. is not the house passed bill. it joe manchin s bill. he asked for time to put something together, that he thought made sense and thought that he could get people, republicans to support. he was given that time. and he did and now, he is supporting the filibuster that s a filibuster of his bill. so, the freedom to vote act is joe manchin s legislation. that stacey abrams endorsed, when he first proposed to. i followed her and supported the bill. and today, the president of the united states came out with a full endorsement of joe manchin s bill. so, it would seem to me, that
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reticent about this issue. i want to remind your listeners and those looking in, the bill that the president endorsed today, the freedom to vote act, is not the house passed bill. that is joe manchin s bill. he asked for time to put something together that he thought made sense and thought he could get republicans to support. he was given that time and he did it, and now he is supporting the filibuster that s a filibuster of his bill. so, the freedom to vote act is joe manchin s legislation stacey abrams endorsed when he first proposed it. i followed her and supported in support of the bill, and today the president of the united states came out with his
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