When Vice President Kamala Harris was asked last month by Charlamagne Tha God whether Joe Biden or Sen. Joe Manchin III is “the real president of this country,” her fiery response became a viral moment.
“No, no, no, no, it’s Joe Biden,” she said on “The God’s Honest Truth with Charlamagne Tha God”. “And don’t start talking like a Republican, about asking whether or not he’s president. … And it’s Joe Biden, it’s Joe Biden, and I’m vice president, and my name is Kamala Harris.”
The unusually impassioned exchange obscured a broader discussion of one of the issues that prompted Charlamagne’s skepticism: The administration’s lack of accomplishment on voting rights.
Good morning, and welcome to Essential Politics: Kamala Harris edition. This week, I’ll discuss the state of play on the issue as we approach the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and Democrats set a deadline of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to pass a voting rights bill.
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Charlamagne was reacting to frustration among Democrats that some of Biden’s agenda has been thwarted by Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who holds outsize sway in the evenly divided Senate. Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, another conservative Democrat, have expressed reservations about altering the filibuster rule, a Senate tradition that forces many bills to garner 60 votes to pass.
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