Manchin remarked that his party’s collective embrace of election reform that lacks bipartisan support is wrong; after making this point, the West Virginia Democrat noted that passing voting bills void of bipartisan support will mean the end of democracy. The Democrat senator ultimately cited this as his reason for opposing H.R. 1.
Later in Manchin’s Charleston Gazette-Mail, he noted that even Republicans who voted to impeach Trump earlier this year are against H.R. 1. The senator also wrote that members of his own party lauded Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, yet now are professing these exact same GOP members as threats against democracy.
Finally, Manchin reaffirmed that he will not vote in favor of “weakening” or “eliminating” the Senate filibuster. The West Virginia senator then called out Democrats for vilifying the filibuster now, yet using it in the past to shield what the party viewed as their own rights.
