'There's no question last night was a disappointment': House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats 'will continue the work' on voting rights legislation after vote failed in Senate
Senate Republicans blocked Democrats from moving forward on voting rights legislation, and Democrats failed to get 50 votes to change the Senate rules to move forward with the legislation with a simple majority.
President Joe Biden issued a statement after the votes, saying he was"profoundly disappointed" in the outcome, although he did not place blame on fellow Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was"perhaps the most important day in the history of the Senate" and said that if the Democrats' succeed, they would"break" the Senate.
Earlier Wednesday, Manchin told his colleagues that invoking the so-called nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote threshold would exacerbate the current political divisions. "Allowing one party to exert complete control in the Senate with only a simple majority will only pour fuel on the fire of political whiplash and dysfunction, and that is tearing this nation apart," he said.
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