A political 'dark money' group led by a former top aide to Senate Minority Leader McConnell is launching a $1M ad campaign in West Virginia to pressure Sen. Manchin to keep the filibuster rules intact.
and digital ads Wednesday. The campaign, which is scheduled to run for 12 days and was first shared with NBC News, uses clips of Manchin vowing he will not get rid of the filibuster.
"Call Senator Manchin. Tell him to keep his promise. Tell him to protect the Senate filibuster," a narrator says in the 30-second ad.The ad also invokes Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying they"could jam through their socialist agenda" if Democrats eliminate the filibuster.
"West Virginians know Senator Manchin as a man of his word who will stand up to Chuck Schumer and the D.C. liberals who want to dictate West Virginia's election laws and take away our freedom," said One Nation President Steven Law, who was once McConnell's chief of staff. The ad puts new pressure on Manchin in a ruby red state that former President Donald Trump won by nearly 40 percentage points in 2020. Schumer said Monday that the Senate will debate and considerManchin, along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has resisted changing the rules to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, a compromise bill backed by all 50 Democratic-voting senators.
Manchin reiterated his concerns about changing the Senate rules this week, telling reporters that"it's very, very difficult" and that it would be a"heavy lift" for Democrats. But he didn't shut the door on making changes, either. Manchin has been talking with other senators to consider changes to the 60-vote threshold to pass most legislation.
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