he said he is in favor soft of some voting rights action, but chuck schumer has been trying to say that they were in favor of changing the rules when necessary, right? yes, what i flaerd this press conference is a person nowhere near being willing, and i think it is anything else that is the problem here formanchin. he is in favor of the voting rights pressures, he said. but the idea of changing the rules, is the kind of thing that worries him about what could happen further down the line. we heard a lot of that today. there is a meeting today among senate democrats and senate democratics and manchin likes to
in a state where 80% of people vote by mail. kyrsten sinema didn t see this has as a huge threat to democracy. you would think in her own backyard, kyrsten sinema would have been the one to be on the front lines of protecting voting rights, not one of the key democratic senators to block voting rights action. if you want to see evidence of voter suppression, look to further than kyrsten sinema s home state. that is a very good point and in the minute we have left, let s talk about florida and governor desantis election cops. what on earth is this about? again, it is further weaponizing the big lie and it is about intimidating minority voters. and this could have a chilling effect on voter participation. the irony here, jonathan, the only cases of voter fraud that i know of in florida in 2020 were four republican voters in the villages, largest retirement community in america, casting fraudulent ballots for donald trump. if he wants to look for the very
republicans want to do it again. the republican leader of the georgia state senate promised to introduce a fresh batch of bills that could go even further than what we saw on 2021. joining me now to discuss this and more, georgia state representative bee nguyen, she s also a democratic candidate for georgia secretary of state. thank you so much for joining us. i wanted to start off by asking you, if i can, your reaction to what went down in washington last week. it was a pretty seismic week if you ve been tracking the decline of our democracy. have you given up on federal voting rights action become it? look, as soon as we recognize our voting rights were on the block. having a two page bill turned into a 98-page voter suppression bill with the doors open in the version of democracy. we knew that it was instrumental, that we have to pass federal voting rights protection. we have also known here, and georgia, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin have been blocking that
they actually believe, but some of it is some political calculations, but the political calculations are wrong. you are demotivating the base of the democratic party, and it will cost us and eventually them at some point when they run for office. and you know, so using the filibuster as an excuse i think is not the way to go. the reconciliation is working at least for bbb, but for voting rights act there is no excuse. you should not be using the filibuster to stop the voting rights act. you shouldn t be using the filibuster at all, but shouldn t use it to stop civil rights legislation. and in the end, i think they will change their minds, at least when it comes to voting rights act. i can t imagine senator sinema is going to be the only holdout when it comes to the voting rights action. it s not sustainable. she wouldn t survive an election if she does that. and you know, in the end, you know, she is a survivor, and she s a political survivor, and she will do what s right especially if
get back to work, how they re going to cover the cost of insulin for a child who might be diabetic. these are the real issues that families talk about. the sport politics is not that interesting to the people i represent. what s interesting to them is their future. that s why i say it s not left or right, it s forward that we have to focus our attention on. let me ask you about a couple other things, starting with what we just heard, at least in part from vice-president harris just in that moment that we dipped into here. before we were able to dip into her, she said she obviously supported terry mcauliffe in the virginia race. she supports people voting and that s what happened. she said you need to keep fighting for voting rights. this hour as we have been on the air, there is a setback in the senate with senate republicans voting to block consideration of the john lewis voting rights action. your reaction? the senate needs to change its rules so the majority rules. the idea of a