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| Democrats suffer disastrous night in Virginia and a tight race in New Jersey – live | Democrats suffer disastrous night in Virginia and a tight race in New Jersey – live |
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| Glen Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race after Republicans provoked parents over critical race theory, and Phil Murphy is on the brink in New Jersey | Glen Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race after Republicans provoked parents over critical race theory, and Phil Murphy is on the brink in New Jersey |
| The long fight over the filibuster in the US senate is expected to finally reach a breaking point this afternoon. | |
| That’s when the senate will hold a vote on a voting rights bill that would restore a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. | |
| The measure would set up a new formula to require certain states and other jurisdictions to get voting changes approved by the federal government before they go into effect if there is evidence they have discriminated against voters in recent years. | |
| Just one Republican, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, supports the measure, all remaining GOP senators will likely vote against it. | |
| That will successfully block the measure from advancing using the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance legislation. It will be the fourth time Republicans have filibustered a voting rights bill this year. | |
| Democrats know that’s the likely outcome. But they’re hoping this will finally be enough to persuade Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, two Democrats who are the most reluctant to get rid of the filibuster, to support changing the rules. | |
| Expect Democrats to make a much louder push to explicitly change the rules of the filibuster following Wednesday’s vote. | |
| Joe Biden recently made headlines when he said he supported changing the rule to pass a voting rights bill, but he hasn’t explicitly said what changes he would support. We’ll likely be hearing a lot more about explicit changes soon. | |
| Reuters just added that senate minority leader Mitch McConnell predicted this morning that the senate would reject the latest effort by Democrats to open debate on voting rights legislation, in the procedural vote. | |
| Do the Democrats have it in New Jersey? Governor Phil Murphy has been on a knife edge all night in his bid for re-election over a Republican challenger. | Do the Democrats have it in New Jersey? Governor Phil Murphy has been on a knife edge all night in his bid for re-election over a Republican challenger. |
| Some politics watchers now think Murphy is over the line: | Some politics watchers now think Murphy is over the line: |
| Good morning US live blog readers, Joe Biden arrived back in the US from the climate summit in Scotland and walked into a disastrous night for Democrats in Virginia as veteran party stalwart Terry McAuliffe lost the governor’s race to a Republican newcomer. There were lots of other interesting results and some hot stuff coming up on Capitol Hill later today, so please stay tuned. | Good morning US live blog readers, Joe Biden arrived back in the US from the climate summit in Scotland and walked into a disastrous night for Democrats in Virginia as veteran party stalwart Terry McAuliffe lost the governor’s race to a Republican newcomer. There were lots of other interesting results and some hot stuff coming up on Capitol Hill later today, so please stay tuned. |
| Democrats are reeling in Virginia after Glenn Youngkin won the gubernatorial election after a contest that pitted Democrats’ anti-Trump message against the Republicans’ provoking parents over school education. | Democrats are reeling in Virginia after Glenn Youngkin won the gubernatorial election after a contest that pitted Democrats’ anti-Trump message against the Republicans’ provoking parents over school education. |
| The New Jersey governor’s race is on a knife-edge this morning as Democrat Phil Murphy is on the brink. | The New Jersey governor’s race is on a knife-edge this morning as Democrat Phil Murphy is on the brink. |
| Boston has elected its first female mayor and person of color in the post after Michelle Wu pulled out a victory for Democrats, ending the city’s 200-year history of electing white men. | Boston has elected its first female mayor and person of color in the post after Michelle Wu pulled out a victory for Democrats, ending the city’s 200-year history of electing white men. |
| In Washington DC, Senate Democrats are pushing for another vote on election reform this afternoon, on whether to advance to the debate step the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would replace part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the supreme court struck down in 2013. | In Washington DC, Senate Democrats are pushing for another vote on election reform this afternoon, on whether to advance to the debate step the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would replace part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the supreme court struck down in 2013. |