{"id":1204249,"date":"2022-01-10T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204249"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:19:16","slug":"mcconnell-blasts-the-lefts-big-lie-as-schumer-prepares-another-voting-bill-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-blasts-the-lefts-big-lie-as-schumer-prepares-another-voting-bill-push\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Blasts \u2018The Left\u2019s Big Lie\u2019 As Schumer Prepares Another Voting Bill Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-blasts-the-lefts-big-lie-as-schumer-prepares-another-voting-bill-push%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats late Sunday, calling their effort to pass voting legislation \u201cThe Left\u2019s Big Lie\u201d as they prepare to try and pass another bill.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell criticized Democrats\u2019 belief that \u201cthere is some evil anti-voting conspiracy sweeping America\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017e-41ed-d8d6-a3fe-e3edab430000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000016d-065d-df4a-a7ff-367faf7a0000&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> to reporters, invoking Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/chuck-schumer-democrat-voting-bill-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promise to try and change the chamber\u2019s rules<\/a> if their bill fails when voted on later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Democrats] will try to use fake hysteria to break the Senate and silence millions of Americans\u2019 voices so they can take over elections and ram through their radical agenda,\u201d McConnell said, adding how he and \u201cSenate Republicans have repeatedly stood up to the left and their Big Lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/senate-republicans-block-democrats-compromise-voting-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filibustered<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/chuck-schumer-joe-manchin-senate-voting-rights-bill-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two<\/a> Democratic voting bills in the last year. Democrats have said the reforms are a necessary response to election bills clamping down on mail-in and early voting in several GOP-controlled states. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/20\/chuck-schumer-democrat-voting-senate-rules-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Schumer Vows To Bring Voting Bills, Rules Changes To Senate Floor)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7338045\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7338045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Democrats could abolish the filibuster without any Republican support, allowing them to then pass their voting legislation with just a simple majority, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have remained steadfast in their opposition to doing so. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/kyrsten-sinema-reaffirms-opposition-abolishing-filibuster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Sinema Again Says She Won\u2019t Support Altering Filibuster)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One area of potential compromise, however, revolves around reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 in order to prevent partisan actors from overturning an election. McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John Thune have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/mcconnell-electoral-count-act-reform-526542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> they are open to the idea, and a group of bipartisan senators reportedly met last week to discuss areas of agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats late Sunday, calling their effort to pass voting legislation \u201cThe Left\u2019s Big Lie\u201d as they prepare to try and pass another &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}