
Why Democrats haven't given up on Joe Manchin and voting rights
CNN
Manchin's inability to attract Republican support for his voting rights bill underscores how the filibuster halts action on contentious issues. That's why his Democratic colleagues keep trying to change his mind over his support of the filibuster.
Today, as 74-year-old Manchin serves his second Senate term, the chamber stands poised to bury his voting rights proposal the same way. But this time there's a twist: The West Virginia Democrat, by continuing to support the filibuster, himself serves as sponsor and gravedigger alike.
That incongruity keeps alive a continuing closed-door effort by fellow Democrats and the White House to change Manchin's mind on the filibuster. Even those involved concede it's a long shot. But they haven't given up.

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