House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) alleged Sunday that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) could be convinced to support the sweeping election reform bill that has received staunch opposition from Republicans and some moderate Democrats. “I think he left the door open. I think it’s ajar. I’m not giving up,” Pelosi said. Manchin announced last week that he would vote against S. 1, the companion to a House-passed bill, because he believed it would “destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.” “Congressional action on federal voting rights legislation must be the result of both Democrats and Republicans coming together to find a pathway forward or we risk further dividing and destroying the republic we swore to protect and defend as elected officials,” Manchin wrote in an op-ed for a West Virginia paper. The senator throughout the piece emphasized he would not back election reform legislation unless it had some measure of …
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