President Biden Continues To Push For Changing Senate Rules On The Filibuster And To Pass New Laws On How U.S. Elections Are To Be Run

 

Daily Mail: Biden will head to the Capitol TOMORROW to directly lobby Senate Democrats into killing the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation 

* President Joe Biden will head to Capitol Hill on Thursday for a special meeting with Senate Democrats 

* He will push them to kill the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation 

* The meeting comes as both sides have ratched up the rhetoric on the issue 

* Biden attacked Republicans in a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday 

* Mitch McConnell went to the Senate floor on Wednesday afternoon to trash Biden, calling his Atlanta speech 'incorrect, incoherent, and beneath his office' 

President Joe Biden will head to Capitol Hill on Thursday for a special meeting with Senate Democrats to push them to kill the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. 

The president will 'discuss the push to pass voting rights and potential changes to Senate rules,' a senior Democratic aide told DailyMail.com. 

The in-person meeting will take place in the the Kennedy Caucus Room, which is a large conference room in Russell Senate Office Building.  

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Update #1: Biden to Endorse Changing Filibuster to Pass Voting Rights Laws (NYTimes)  

Update #2: Biden confronts a skeptical base as he pushes voting rights in Georgia (Politico)  

WNU Editor: It is always a sight to see when a US President is running against a US Congress that his own party controls. 

And on top of everything else, aside from the Democrat base. this push to get rid of the filibuster is not a priority for the majority of Americans .... Biden's approval sits at just 44% - with only 37% of Americans backing killing the filibuster: 66% of voters say country is on 'wrong track' and majority 40% say the economy is their top concern (Daily Mail). 

Regardless of the polls, the push is on to get rid of the filibuster and to make changes in how US elections are run .... Democrats team up on Manchin: Schumer says ALL his Senators are telling the moderate that they will lose elections if they don't kill the filibuster - and is sending in nine of them to 'change his mind' (Daily Mail). This tells me that the election rules that Democrats won in 2020 are not going to help them in 2022 and beyond.

Update #3: This is becoming a habit.  I have lost count in the past year on how many times President Biden has said this .... Joe Biden calls Kamala 'President Harris' AGAIN in yet another slip of the tongue during voting rights speech (Daily Mail).

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