{"id":571111,"date":"2021-06-22T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571111"},"modified":"2021-06-22T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:07:11","slug":"breaking-gop-stops-democrats-attempt-to-tilt-every-election-permanently-in-their-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-gop-stops-democrats-attempt-to-tilt-every-election-permanently-in-their-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: GOP Stops Democrats\u2019 Attempt To \u2018Tilt Every Election \u2026 Permanently In Their Favor\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbreaking-gop-stops-democrats-attempt-to-tilt-every-election-permanently-in-their-favor%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=571111&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mcconnell-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"45.217021276596\">\n<p>Republican senators shot down an attempt by Democrats on Tuesday to pass an election bill widely criticized as partisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll 50 Democrats voted for the procedural measure, but it drew no GOP support, leaving it short of the 60 votes needed to overcome\u00a0a Republican filibuster,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-ambitions-run-headlong-into-filibuster-11614883418?mod=article_inline\">reported<\/a>. \u201cDemocratic centrists, most prominently Mr. Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, have rejected ending the filibuster, though some have suggested ways to weaken it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have repeatedly sought to cast the filibuster as racist in an attempt to pressure senators to abolish it so they can ram through President Joe Biden\u2019s liberal agenda. Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-senate-filibuster-2020-block-gop-legislation\">repeatedly<\/a> used the filibuster to stop Republicans from advancing legislation under former President Donald Trump and Republicans had to hold \u201ctime-sapping roll call votes to break a filibuster and end debate on nominees a whopping 314 times\u201d under Trump, compared to a total of 244 times under all previous presidents combined, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/08\/senate-record-breaking-gridlocktrump-303811\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that S-1, the election bill Democrats have been pushing for months, was \u201cDemocrats\u2019 transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that it would shatter a decades-old understanding that campaign law should have a bipartisan referee, and turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan-majority cudgel for Democrats to wield against their political opponents,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/pressreleases?ID=42B3C480-29FE-4505-BA24-5133B8BF0407\">said<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWe know that it would let Washington bureaucrats direct federal dollars into politicians\u2019 campaign accounts \u2013 government money for yard signs and attack ads. We know that it would let Democrats take a red pen to election laws in each of the 50 states, neutering popular precautions like voter I.D. while legalizing shady practices like ballot harvesting across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators shot down an attempt by Democrats on Tuesday to pass an election bill widely criticized as partisan.\u201cAll 50 Democrats voted for the procedural measure, but it drew no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281040,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mcconnell-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: GOP Stops Democrats\u2019 Attempt To \u2018Tilt Every Election \u2026 Permanently In Their Favor\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mcconnell-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: GOP Stops Democrats\u2019 Attempt To \u2018Tilt Every Election \u2026 Permanently In Their Favor\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571111","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}