{"id":5437,"date":"2021-06-23T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2021-06-23T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:44:16","slug":"gop-crushes-manchins-hopes-for-elections-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"GOP crushes Manchin\u2019s hopes for elections compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Senate Republicans spent months praising Joe Manchin for his insistence on cross-party compromise. Next week they will almost surely end his hopes for a bipartisan deal on elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed all 50 Republicans would oppose Sen. Manchin\u2019s (D-W.Va.) slimmed-down elections compromise, which focuses on expanding early voting and ending partisan gerrymandering in federal elections. And it\u2019s not clear there\u2019s a single Republican vote to even begin debate on the matter, potentially dooming Manchin&#8217;s proposals before they can even make it into the bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/17\/gop-manchin-election-compromise-495023\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/17\/gop-manchin-election-compromise-495023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senate Republicans spent months praising Joe Manchin for his insistence on cross-party compromise. Next week they will almost surely end his hopes for a bipartisan deal on elections.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed all 50 Republicans would oppose Sen. Manchin\u2019s (D-W.Va.) slimmed-down elections compromise, which focuses on expanding early voting and ending partisan gerrymandering in federal elections. And it\u2019s not clear there\u2019s a single Republican vote to even begin debate on the matter, potentially dooming Manchin&#8217;s proposals before they can even make it into the bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,773,542,198,1172,968,506],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-compromise","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-joe-manchin","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}