Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the

upcoming election will be fairly conducted and its results will be legitimate?

Well, it all depends on whether or not we're able to make the case to the American people

that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election.

This in exchange had President Biden's marathon press conference this week in which he appeared

to leave open the door for Democrats to question legitimacy of this year's congressional elections

due to new voting laws being passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures.

The comments came just as West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin was on the floor of the Senate,

reaffirming that he would not go along with changing Senate filibuster rules, thereby effectively

dooming the President's call for sweeping new federal laws that would override what

GOP lawmakers are doing in the States.

It was another crushing defeat for Biden, coming amid slipping poll numbers, rising inflation,

a social spending plan stalled in the Senate, and a public weary and frustrated by a coronavirus

that simply doesn't go away.

How big of a defeat was this for the Biden White House and for Democrats in general?

And what would it actually mean for this fall's midterms? We'll talk to Michael Waldman,

President of the Brennan Center for Justice, an author of the newly reissued book The Fight

to Vote about those questions and much more on this episode of Skull Duggery.

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