The Manchin voting rights bill is what a real negotiation between Manchin and voting rights advocates looks like, which is why the latter sound encouraged. But there's not even the beginning of a constituency in the GOP to work on this. It's a virtually 100% internal D debate.
This isn't like other issues, where there's a GOP version of how to approach it and a D one and maybe they can find some overlap. They just fundamentally are not working on the same issue here. Outside Murkowski, almost no interest in making significant federal changes, period.
In other words, the only q that matters: Are Manchin (and other Ds) willing to change the rules to pass a D-only bill on voting rights? No indication his position is budging there. If it does, this is what a deal looks like. If not, it's just an interesting thought experiment.
Confirming the obvious, but what Manchin is doing on voting is a debate between Democrats. This isn’t like infrastructure, where it’s possible to see substantive common ground across party lines, it’s just a fundamental disagreement. politi.co/3cRSl2W
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