(#4726) Is this the week that Manchin and Sinema agree to voting rights protections?

      Voting rights protection legislation is all coming to a head this week. Either we will see some positive movement on this crisis that republicans have instigated or we will see the republican party claim some twisted logic for denying voters the right to vote. One or the other will happen after this week is done. Senate majority leader chuck Schumer has given until MLK day or before, January 17, which is next Monday, for a vote to offer voting rights protections. So this week will give us an answer as to if Manchin and Sinema will agree to a voting rights protections carve out of the archaic senate filibuster rule.
     We democrats have been trying to get this type of legislation passed since early this last summer. 4 times the voting rights protection bills have been introduced only to be blocked by republicans who used the filibuster to block any consideration of voting rights protections. We know why. Since republican led states have been passing voter restrictions to keep democrats from freely voting. So why would the national republicans do anything to stop the red states from gaining an advantage? We know that the republican party cannot win elections if they are free and fair so that is their strategy to keep democrats from voting so that they can squeak out their victories.
     So when Chuck Schumer puts the voting rights protection bill up for a vote this week, no doubt all republicans will vote against it except maybe one. The result will be another voting rights bill blocked by republicans. So then Chuck Schumer will put up a vote for a carve out of the filibuster for voting rights protections and all 50 senators in the democratic caucus will need to vote yes for the rule change. We all  know by now that Manchin and Sinema are against a rule change to the filibuster but this time they will have to actually cast a vote to prove it. If they vote no then the Biden agenda is crippled and most likely lost. If they vote yes then the Biden agenda is given a fresh breath of air and the American people will get their democracy back.