| Sen. Joe Manchin is still against abolishing the filibuster; President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sees his power restricted in Mexico's elections. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. | | | | | | | Joe Manchin is standing in the way of Senate Democrats' efforts to protect voting rights | | | | | Michael Swensen/Getty Images | | - In an op-ed published Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) again signaled his opposition to eliminating the Senate filibuster and said he would not vote to pass S 1, Democrats' landmark voting rights reform bill. [CNN / Devan Cole, Aileen Graef, and Daniella Diaz]
- It's a major blow for the Biden camp, which needs yes votes from Manchin to break Senate filibuster rules and pass much of the president's agenda, especially on voting rights reform. S 1 would restrict partisan gerrymandering, break down barriers to voting, and make campaign donations more transparent. [AP]
- It's an attempt by Democrats to undo state-level voting restrictions installed by the GOP. Yet Manchin is calling that work partisan in itself. [Intelligencer / Jonathan Chait]
- "Today's debate about how to best protect our right to vote and to hold elections, however, is not about finding common ground, but seeking partisan advantage," Manchin wrote in the op-ed, which appeared in the Charleston Gazette-Mail Sunday. [Charleston Gazette-Mail / Joe Manchin]
- While former President Donald Trump is calling Manchin's decision "the right thing," Manchin is being lambasted by members of his own party, including Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who on Monday called the senator "the new Mitch McConnell." [Insider / John L. Dorman]
| | | A shake-up in Mexico's lower house | | - President Andrés Manuel López Obrador "won but didn't triumph" in Mexico's largest-ever spate of midterm elections Sunday. His Morena party hung on to control of Congress but lost an important supermajority in the lower house, which will force López Obrador to negotiate more in the second half of his term. [Washington Post / Mary Beth Sheridan]
- All 500 seats in the lower house were up for grabs in the election. Morena and its allies won between 265 and 292 of them, short of the two-thirds majority needed to move legislative changes through without party crossover. [BBC]
- Fifteen governorships were also in play, along with 20,000 local posts in 30 of 32 states. In large part, those were the races that attracted violence. More than three dozen local election candidates were killed in the runup to Sunday's balloting, mostly by criminal gangs seeking to control the electoral playing field in their domains. [AP / Christopher Sherman and Mark Stevenson]
- AMLO, as he is known in Mexico, has come under fire for his government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which plunged the country into economic crisis and resulted in the deaths of more than 300,000 people. Despite that, his popularity has remained high, at around 60 percent. [Washington Post / Mary Beth Sheridan]
- Critics worried López Obrador, who has already radically reformed the central government, could dismantle important facets of Mexican democracy. Political analysts are calling the results "a powerful reversal." [NYT / Anatoly Kurmanaev and Oscar Lopez]
| | | | | | | Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Guatemala and Mexico this week to try to strengthen American economic ties with the two countries and help tackle rampant corruption and poverty. | | | [NPR / Tamara Keith] - Former UN ambassador and prospective 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley is set to embark on a trip to Israel, where she'll meet with government officials and tour the country's Iron Dome facility. [Axios]
- Pedro Castillo, a socialist schoolteacher and political novice, took a narrow lead in Peru's early presidential election results Monday, edging out Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. The tightness of the vote could lead to delays in announcing an outcome and further raise tensions in the country. [Reuters]
- Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks has finally been served with a lawsuit related to his role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. [CNN / Katelyn Polantz]
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