Democrats respond to Manchin concerns with insults and Jim Crow lies

 Washington Examiner:

Joe Manchin’s firm stance against Democrats’ sweeping election overhaul bill is turning simmering frustration among his fellow Democrats to a full boil, prompting accusations of upholding Jim Crow, comparisons to Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and a swipe at his houseboat lifestyle choice.

The criticism stems from Manchin's linchpin status in the Senate as one of the more conservative Democrats in the 50-member caucus. There are 50 Senate Republicans, meaning Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris casts tiebreaking votes. It's a position that leaves Manchin in a pivotal role in deciding what bills pass the Senate or even get considered.

The turning point in liberal criticism against Manchin was an op-ed from the West Virginia Democratic senator in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Sunday.

“I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act,” Manchin said. “Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.”

Instead, Manchin argued, focus should be on a different piece of election reform legislation: the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which aims to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after a 2013 Supreme Court decision found that the formula for determining whether a state’s voting laws can be reviewed by a federal court is outdated.

‘IT WOULD DIVIDE US FURTHER’: MANCHIN TO VOTE AGAINST DEMOCRATS’ ELECTION BILL

“Manchin’s op-ed might as well be titled, ‘Why I’ll vote to preserve Jim Crow,’” New York Rep. Mondaire Jones said in a tweet. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted Jones.

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The Jim Crow assertions are the same absurd lies that Biden and others used about Georgia voter integrity measures.  There is nothing remotely like the Jim Crow abuses of the segregation era in these new voter integrity measurers and the assertion that black voters are incapable of getting an ID is an insult to their intelligence. Mondaire Jones and AOC are from the intellectual lightweight caucus of the Democrats.

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