‘Profoundly Disappointed’: Biden Reacts After Senate Dems Fail in Effort to Pass Voting Rights Legislation

President Joe Biden says the Senate has “failed to stand up for our democracy” after Republicans blocked Senate Democrats’ effort to pass 🗳️Voting rights legislation.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dealt a significant blow to Democrats’ efforts to change filibuster rules to pass the 🗳️Voting rights legislation. The vote came out to be 52-48.

Biden issued a statement reacting to the vote, saying, “At the core of our democracy is a basic principle: the right to vote, and to have that vote counted. That principle was assaulted one year ago, when a violent mob attempted a coup seeking to overturn the will of the people.”

He continued, “And today, in state after state, Republican state legislatures are engaged in an unprecedented effort to suppress the sacred right to vote and subvert the American bedrock of free and fair elections.”

The president explained he is “profoundly disappointed that the United States Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed — but I am not deterred.”