Sen. Joe Manchin has been the one to pretty much deliver the bad news to Democrats concerning their plan to nuke the filibuster.
Voting rights: Schumer says the Senate will vote on a package of Senate rules changes by Jan. 17 - less than two weeks away.
While Manchin said he's still talking with his colleagues, he isn't on board with a filibuster carve-out for voting rights - calling it "a heavy lift" - and isn't willing to go nuclear and eliminate the filibuster altogether.
Well, even if Manchin signs onto this plan, and I don't think he will, then Democrats still fail thanks to Sinema.
Others have been pretty quiet about it, including Sinema's Arizona colleague Mark Kelly, who has to face purple-to-red-state voters in November in an environment created by Joe Biden's polling collapse.
There may be as many as six votes against a nuclear option, not just two.
The rest of Schumer's endangered incumbents won't appreciate it at all, and are likely egging Manchin and Sinema on in their entrenched opposition in hopes that Schumer will back down.
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