he s offering in terms of moving there. but hearing that sound bite you just played we see the conflictedness and tension within president biden. on one hand, he is an old school former senator, an institutionalist who has yearned for the older days of bipartisanship when the two parties worked together and everything functioned in congress. but he has also been fiercely critical of republicans for enacting restrictive voter laws around the country that he describes as a threat to democracy. he also in that cnn town hall talked about republicans potentially plotting to refuse to certify future elections which he said had never been done here. none of that is consistent really with his position on the filibuster because the only way to do a federal voting rights standard that pierces through those laws is to breakthrough the filibuster and phil buster is not going to do that. republicans are very determined to block these voting rights expansions and guarantees in all 50 states that dem
places where joe biden ended up winning by about this much. which is why politically this is so vital to democrats and politically, why republicans are so dogged to block it. so the two parties feel their real partisan differences on the implications of what happened here. that s where the rubber meets the road on the filibuster. look, we re seeing in state after state after state, red states, this effort for state legislatures and governors to dial back those voting rights expansions to make it more difficult to vote in some cases why. does this all matter? because of redistricting after the census. there is a real battle for about the next decade s worth of political control at stake here. that s just the hard political fact of the matter. we ve heard that democrats want to show they re unified behind this. what s the virtue of unity if you won t do anything to pass the legislation.