Democrats are trying to push Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) into voting to weaken the filibuster so that Democrats can pass election legislation after Manchin on Tuesday refused to join his party on this route. In a statement released to his Twitter on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempted to tie GOP opposition to federal election bills to the Jan. 6 “domestic extremists” who, Schumer contended, tried to “destroy our Republic.” “Domestic violent extremists sought to inflict chaos and violence. Fueled by conspiracy and the ravings of a vengeful former President, they sought to destroy our Republic,” Schumer told his Senate Democratic colleagues in a Jan. 3 Dear Colleague letter. Hoping to bypass the opposition of all 50 GOP senators to the bill, Schumer proposed that Democrats use the “nuclear option,” which in U.S. legislative parlance describes a pathway to change Senate rules with a simple majority vote, …