At Davos, Sinema and Manchin High-Five Over Keeping Filibuster Rule
- Their opposition stopped Democrats’ changes to voting rights
- US Senators spoke on a panel at World Economic Forum event
Chris Coons, Brian Kemp, J.B. Pritzker. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Maria Elvira Salazar, and Mikie Sherrill.
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Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — who foiled Democrats’ efforts to pass a voting-rights overhaul by a simple majority — shared a high-five on the stage in Davos as they reaffirmed their opposition to overturning the Senate’s filibuster rule.
“We still don’t agree on getting rid of the filibuster, correct?” Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, asked Sinema. “That’s correct,” she said, initiating the high-five during an event at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Switzerland.