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Anyway, on the Manchin front, a call of him with donors leaked and the two most interesting things on it were that he tried to get them to persuade the GOP (he names Blunt in particular) to vote for the 1/6 Commission in order to weaken the push to remove the filibuster. Obviously this failed, and when asked about it Blunt maintained his opposition.

Second was that despite his public hardline on the filibuster of not even reforming it, on the call he was open to reform and even sounded like he wanted to make it so that the opposition would need to maintain 41 no votes on the floor instead of the current framework where the burden is on the majority to come up with 60 votes to overcome it while the opposition needs do nothing. He also talked about maybe lowering it to 55 votes. Now I've made no secret that I think forcing the opposition to maintain the votes on the floor would be one of the better reforms if you're not going to just outright kill the filibuster so that's... kinda encouraging? Lowering the threshold to 55 would be useless though because the GOP would still block anything of significance like Voting Rights.

I mean, it's pretty damning that it takes a leaked call with donors to get a more candid look into Manchin's thinking but I don't think any of us are surprised by that so I'm just looking at what he said instead.

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