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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has cast another blow against President Biden's agenda. Her Wednesday reaffirmation that she opposes changing the Senate filibuster rules to jettison the 60-vote threshold for most legislation will doom Democrats' voting rights push unless Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) can pull a rabbit out of his hat.

One reason for the party's shift to voting legislation after its failure to pass Biden's social welfare spending bill, the Build Back Better agenda, was that even if Democrats couldn't get anything done, at least they could blame Republicans. The message was all set for the midterms later this year: It's Republicans who refuse to support voting rights and constantly obstruct Biden. It's Republicans who necessitated these voting bills in the first place with former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election and restrictive election laws being passed in red states.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.