ro khanna in the introduction, do you think joe biden can get done voting rights on what they packages to be passed and for federal voting rights to be passed into law. of course that s not going to happen. as you played that clip from ro khanna, progressives are still hopeful that democrats will come to the hill and work with these leaders to find out what, if anything, is possible to help in the way of stopping these republican restrictive measures that have been implemented across the country. progressives had been working hand in glove with biden and kamala harris since bernie sanders dropped out of the presidential election since 2020 on issues around voting rights and everything else, as you know, and they really want to see something get done, but it s coming down to the states at this point, and that s why you re seeing a number of governors, democratic governors in particular, proposing their own voting rights plans to get around the fact that the
at things like executive orders that might be able to get done, some people of course are looking at things on the hill, like the electoral count act to get done. but people in the states are organizing, and more than, that democratic governors around the country are stepping up and proposing their own voting rights plans, secretaries of state, of course, are taking on new important roles as we have seen them evolve in all of this mess around voting rights and election security. so i think that is going to be interesting to watch for 2022. i think for 2024 it s the popularity or the increasing popularity of governors and statewide executives and it might shift the focus on the house and state candidates. thanks to all of you. and coming up, leading republicans now, taking sides over the insurrection, so we re gonna talk to former senator al franken and mark mckinnon about that growing rift at the rnc. and later, was what s happening in canada right now inspired by the events on janua
they ll say over and over again that they have been stopped doing the work that they plan on stopping doing the work. but they will keep on organizing. i know folks are still looking at things like executive orders that might be able to get done, some people of course are looking at things on the hill, like the electoral count act to get done. but people in the states are organizing, and more than, that democratic governors around the country are stepping up and proposing their own voting rights plans, secretaries of state, of course, are taking on new important roles as we have seen them evolve in all of this mess around voting rights and election security. so i think that is going to be interesting to watch for 2022. i think for 2024 it s the popularity or the increasing popularity of governors and statewide executives and it might shift the focus on the house and state candidates. thanks to all of you. and coming up, leading republicans now, taking sides over the insurrection, so
is there an interplay between these two, between the debate they re having over infrastructure and the debate that is being had over voting rights? there s a massive interplay there, but let s not pretend those are the only two things going on, by the way. fair. there s also this whole pandemic that is getting not necessarily better in a lot of places now. in terms of voting rights, which is of course something the white house is trying to focus on as well, yes. a lot of democrats, particularly on the hill, have still been trying to pass their or trying to find avenues to pass their original voting rights plans. but it seems fairly clear those plans are not going to be passed with the 60 votes that would be needed to do that. as a result, there s a lot of talk about what kind of voting rights measures can be fit into the second plan here that we have been talking about, the broader plan that s likely going to pass or be put up to pass via reconciliation, which is when just the de
kirsten cinema view this concerned about changing the filibuster could under mine the institution all together and come back to haunt them if they are in the minority. what they plan to do on this issue about voting and voting rights is they re trying to bring up the legislation again, chuck schumer the majority leader said he may try to bring a version up for another debate. that almost certainly blocked again by republicans. in the meantime, they re trying to spotlight the issue. i m told the senate rules committee led by dell camocrats amy klobuchar and voting and voting rights plans to have a field hearing in that state to draw attention to the issue democrats want to make this heading into the 2022 midterms, which is why it important they believe to get the whole caucus unified and get joe mansion moving ahead to debate the proposal because they can argue they believe republicans are blocking efforts to ease access to voters rights. of course, it s important