On Tuesday, Senate Republicans saved the country of the Democratic-led federal takeover of the county’s election via the For the People Act. But the liberal broadcast networks were out in force that evening to gaslight their audiences and suggest Republicans had shot down an effort to “expand voting rights” that would have “overhauled” the system. And, of course, they spewed their false claims that the GOP was set to bring back Jim Crow.
CBS Evening News made the strongest case that they were just an extension of the Democratic Party’s press shop. “Well, a Democratic plan to greatly expand voting rights in the U.S. failed tonight in the U.S. Senate. Democrats didn’t come close to the 60 votes they needed to advance debate,” anchor Norah O’Donnell announced at the top of the segment.
Ignoring how the bill would ban popular election integrity measures like voter IDs, CBS congressional correspondent Nikole Killion praised the bill as the foil to Republican efforts to secure elections:
The push for a federal voting rights law comes as 48 states are considering nearly 400 Republican-backed bills that would restrict voting. Across want south, grassroots activist organized freedom rides, like those during the civil rights movement, concerned the proposals could again make it harder for people of color at the ballot box.
Killion used one soundbite a leftist activist to suggest the GOP wanted “Jim Crow 2.0,” and she personally warned that “Congress is running out of time ahead of next year’s midterms.”
Over on ABC’s World News Tonight, sensationalist anchor David Muir also tried to sell the bill to viewers by ignoring how the legislation would ban popular measures and would lead to a federal takeover:
The Senate taking a key vote on the Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill. We have just learned tonight it did not pass. The bill would have, among other things, made election day a federal holiday, making it easy for Americans to get to the polls. It would have required at least 15 consecutive days of early voting. It also placed limits on partisan Gerrymandering.
In fact, ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott falsely claimed the bill protected voter ID laws. “Manchin now on board after his own changes to the bill, including voter I.D., were embraced by voting rights activist Stacey Abrams and former President Barack Obama,” she said.
At the end of the segment Muir and Scott teamed up to laud the Democratic scheme to try to shame Republicans for their opposition:
MUIR: They did not get one Republican vote and Democrats plan to make sure Americans know that? What’s the reaction so far?
SCOTT: David, Democrats tonight wanted to get every single Republican on the record on this issue. They want to paint Republicans ahead of the midterm elections as against expanding voting rights legislation.
And as for NBC Nightly News, Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake did note that “Republicans tonight slamming the bill as a partisan power grab by Democrats that would federalize elections, including preventing states from requiring voter ID.”
But that’s where the kudos end as he ignored the truth and spun the bill by claiming it would have simply “overhauled the country’s election system.” Of course, he pitched it using Democratic talking points and didn’t explain that taxpayers would be paying for campaigns:
Dubbed the “For the People Act,” it includes a requirement states provide same-day voter registration, sets up a public financing system for congressional elections, and requires presidential candidates release their tax returns. Democrats calling the bill a way to push back against new state voting laws passed by Republicans.
He concluded by boasting about the Democratic Party’s endurance, saying, “Democrats are comparing this vote to round one of a boxing match, vowing to fight on to find some way to pass this bill.”
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The transcripts are below, click “expand” to read:
ABC’s World News Tonight
June 22, 2021
6:36:14 p.m. EasternDAVID MUIR: And now to that key vote just moments ago in Washington. The voting rights showdown in this country. The Senate taking a key vote on the Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill. We have just learned tonight it did not pass.
The bill would have, among other things, made election day a federal holiday, making it easy for Americans to get to the polls. It would have required at least 15 consecutive days of early voting. It also placed limits on partisan Gerrymandering.
Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the vote. The Democrats united. Moderate Joe Manchin on board. But of course, Democrats only had 50 votes. They needed 60. And not one Republican voted for it. Tonight, the reaction already pouring in. Rachel Scott with late reporting from the hill tonight.
[Cuts to video]
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris, presiding over a key vote to advance Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill.
VP KAMALA HARRIS: The clerk will call the roll.
SCOTT: Senate Democrats united after a last-minute effort to win over West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who met with President Biden.
What was president Biden’s message to you in that meeting?
SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): We had a nice conversation. The president’s message was very, very confidential.
SCOTT: Manchin now on board after his own changes to the bill, including voter I.D., were embraced by voting rights activist Stacey Abrams and former President Barack Obama.
The legislation would make election day a federal holiday, require at least 15 consecutive days of early voting and limit partisan gerrymandering. And it comes as Republicans in 15 states enact tough new voting restrictions.
SEN. RAPHAEL WARNOCK (D-GA): I fear that if we don’t act as a body in this moment, we will have crossed a dangerous Rubicon in our nation that will make it extremely difficult for the next generation to secure voting rights for every eligible American.
SCOTT: But the Senate Republican leader today calling the bill —
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): Democrats’ transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor.
SCOTT: Democrats need 60 votes to move this bill forward. They only have 50. And tonight, with zero Republican support, it’s a nonstarter.
[Cuts back to live]
MUIR: Did not pass. Let’s get right to Rachel Scott live on the hill tonight. Rachel, Democrats were united on this but, as we pointed out, the Senate 50/50. They did not get one Republican vote and Democrats plan to make sure Americans know that? What’s the reaction so far?
SCOTT: David, Democrats tonight wanted to get every single Republican on the record on this issue. They want to paint Republicans ahead of the midterm elections as against expanding voting rights legislation. Vice President Kamala Harris speaking just moments ago, she said the fight is not over. Senate Majority Leader chuck Schumer says, “make no mistake about it, this issue will come back up for debate on the Senate floor.” A senior Democratic source telling me tonight that the Democrats will be revisiting this before the fall. David?
MUIR: All right, Rachel Scott with late reporting from the hill tonight. Rachel, thank you.
CBS Evening News
June 22, 2021
6:37:02 p.mm EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: Well, a Democratic plan to greatly expand voting rights in the U.S. failed tonight in the U.S. Senate. Democrats didn’t come close to the 60 votes they needed to advance debate. CBS’s Nikole Killion reports tonight from the Capitol.
[Cuts to video]
NIKOLE KILLION: The Democrat-backed voting rights bill, dubbed the “For the People Act” was opposed by Senate Republicans from the start.
SEN. TOM TILLIS (R-NC): I think you could appropriately title it “The Fool the People Act.”
KILLION: Vice President Kamala Harris, the president’s point person on voting rights, presided over the chamber as the GOP blocked debate on the bill.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): What this is really about is an effort of the federal government to take over the way we conduct elections.
KILLION: The bill would expand automatic voter registration and early voting, end partisan gerrymandering, and make Election Day a national holiday. But Senate Democrats were unable to secure the 60 votes required to overcome a Republican filibuster.
SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): This is all about one thing: Some people don’t want some people to vote.
KILLION: The push for a federal voting rights law comes as 48 states are considering nearly 400 Republican-backed bills that would restrict voting. Across want south, grass-roots activist organized freedom rides, like those during the civil rights movement, concerned the proposals could again make it harder for people of color at the ballot box.
CLIFF ALBRIGHT (Black Voters Matter): It’s Jim Crow 2.0. It’s the same impact and the same patterns and that’s why we’re fighting it.
KILLION: Experts say Congress is running out of time ahead of next year’s midterms.
DAVID BECKER: Soon we’re going to be in the 2022 election cycle. The districts will be drawn very shortly, and at that point it gets very difficult to pass election reforms.
[Cuts back to live]
KILLION: West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the lone Democrat who initially opposed the elections reform bill did vote with his party tonight. He crafted a separate compromise that has support from the White House and former President Obama, but it’s not clear if it will be taken up at all. Norah.
O’DONNELL: Nikole Killion, thank you.
NBC Nightly News
June 22, 2021
7:04:54 p.m. EasternLESTER HOLT: Let’s turn now to the showdown on a voting bill. Tonight, in the Senate, President Biden unable to win bipartisan support for the election overhaul he called a top priority. Garrett Haake is at the Capitol with late details for us.
[Cuts to video]
GARRETT HAAKE: In a defeat for Biden, Senate Republicans tonight blocking a Democratic voting bill that would have overhauled the country’s election system.
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): They don’t even want to debate it because they’re afraid. They want to deny the right to vote, make it harder to vote for so many Americans.
HAAKE: Dubbed the “For the People Act,” it includes a requirement states provide same-day voter registration, sets up a public financing system for congressional elections, and requires presidential candidates release their tax returns. Democrats calling the bill a way to push back against new state voting laws passed by Republicans.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I am going to fight like heck with every tool at my disposal for its passage.
HAAKE: But Republicans tonight slamming the bill as a partisan power grab by Democrats that would federalize elections, including preventing states from requiring voter ID.
SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA): Could be more aptly described as Screw the People Act. It will make it much easier to cheat in an election.
HAAKE: With the bill short the required 60 votes, some Democrats pushing for a dramatic change to Senate rules. But like Joe Manchin, Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema showing no sign she will support that.
Senator, what do you say to Democrats disappointed about your op-ed about the filibuster, feeling that they could still change your mind?
SEN. KYRSTEN SINEMA: [Laughs]
[Cuts back to live]
HAAKE: Democrats are comparing this vote to round one of a boxing match, vowing to fight on to find some way to pass this bill. Lester.
HOLT: Garrett Haake, thanks.
Just simply another bald attempt at a power grab to keep the dems in control. All they are really doing is presenting their agenda which is being recognized by conservatives as self-serving to keep themselves in office regardless of the ridiculous strategies attempted.
Thank you Jesus!
How would the bill have expanded voting rights?
Let people younger than 18 vote?
Let non-citizens vote?
Let convicted felons vote?
The right to vote already exists for everyone else.
Maybe they want to let people vote twice or more dead people to vote. That would also be an expansion.
So, I make a semantical argument, but this is supposedly a journalist talking, she should know that words matter and that you don’t say the bill expands voting rights unless it really expands voting rights or you are outright lying and trying to cover up that the bill is really a power grab for the left.
She and all the rest know what the truth is but they chose to lie because that is # 1 in the communist agenda….LIE, LIE, LIE. Too bad we can’t deport all the WOKE LIBERALS to N.Korea where they could get a real taste of communism.
‘Maybe they want to let people vote twice or more dead people to vote.’ They have already allowed that to happen.
I’ll give democrats one thing, they do “work hard”…
As Benjamin Franklin once said: “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
““Democracies have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” The reason pure democracies fail is that majorities learn that they can legally take property and/or liberties away from others. Those subjected to abuse can be anyone outside the majority coalition, and their minority status can be based on race, religion, wealth, political affiliation, or even which city or state they reside in. Demagogic leaders become adept at appealing to the emotions of jealousy, avarice, and entitlement. They also denigrate opponents in order to justify prejudicial actions taken by the majority. Soon, oppression of minority classes causes enough conflicts to collapse the democratic process.”
~James Madison from Federalist 10
Thanks for your service Non Sibi Sed Patriae.
Why Mainstream Media’s like ABC CBS NBC FOX News so blind sided on DEMs excess powers grips creating an misinformation with fabrication by allowing Pro-Communist China propagandists meddling on our democracy into a chaos and ruining theirs reputations and creating a hostile environments for fairness honesty when criminally unjustified who’s our enemies reporting turning around infiltrate for good part of lawful regulations undercover to favoritism fleet of enemies in our high court intends of political errors is terrifying dividing society is unacceptable because the moneys gaining or unexpected powers grips insightful is that’s course for the country we’re looking at ? what’s anything to do with military jet show off on air with her is meaningless not impressed at all !
D, please learn how to use commas, periods, and capital letters.
Please provide information on the last bill presented by the democRAT communists that was really meant to accomplish something good for the people and not the communists party !!!!
More lies by the corrupt media that is branch of the Democratic Party. No wonder people no longer can trust the MSM.
partisan Gerrymandering?? So, kind a like the Rats trying to make D.C. & Port O Rico a state Yup misspelled! Because THEY ARE NOT! & should not be as the founders intended! I am glad however that the racist bigoted libbertards are using the Jim Crow line AGAIN! The more they keep using the racism card the more immune the word and conation becomes to even the ears of colored folk! It was made clear that States CONTROL elections! Even though some states do it illegally as per the Rats officials in those states! The Rats are so intent upon making everything about race and no fairness, truly showing they believe the colored folk are so ignorant and stupid,lazy as to even be albeit to go cast a vote without their direction!! Party of racist pedo’s and sex offenders seems to want to dictate all!!! I am glad the Ho Kammi can be able to go to Congress to direct something! She obviously is doing such a great job of going to the border and handling that CRISIS after all??? That does not matter though, it is not Her family or friends being affected by the drugs,criminals nor Her kids being sex trafficked to Ol Pedo Bidys basement! Meanwhile the American people suffer with every action they are taking! But no worries, little Jen the lying talking head will circle bacjk to that after a full measure of cow shit spews from her mouth! Hell would be to kind of a sentence for Ol Bidy and His people
Peter Jennings is spinning in his grave. He would’ve fired Muir aka pretty boy.
I see a lot of racist diatribe in the comments above. I see only one way to sort this out: arm all African-Americans and let them know that their efforts to establish the infrastructure are, as usual, being shit upon by bigoted motherfuckers who call themselves patriots. I will be opening a marksmanship school here in the South so that when my colleagues take aim they won’t miss. This is really the only issue: white men don’t want to share lawmaking with anyone who is not white. It is the most blatant display of racism I have ever seen in modern times, but just wait until there aren’t enough of you to pad the ballot in your favor. Men of color: watch for the ads. We are supplying the weapons and the ammunition as well as photos of the marks and family members. This ought to level the playing field. If you think this is a joke, pull your head out of your ass, look around and tell me what you see. But look quickly. It could disappear in the blink of an eye.
p.s: This communique has been written on a hijacked computer.