Ep. 560 - Why Joe Biden is to blame for yesterday's voting rights failure

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

First, don't you dare critique this episode without first actually listening to the podcast. Listen, then speak your mind freely. But today on The Breakdown I want to unpack and explain why I think Joe Biden himself was the #1 reason why the voting rights bill failed in the Senate yesterday. Of course Democratic Senators Sinema and Manchin are also to blame.

But the President of the United States, who is the head of the Democratic Party, half-assed this entire push for all of 2021 - not even stating clearly if he supported changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation until it was far too late. By the time Biden was finally ready to move on this, he gave Sinema and Manchin room to dig their heels in. Everything about how this went down was a rushed unprofessional, unprepared mess. Period. And all of that starts and ends with Biden.

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0:30.0	Let me really unpack and explain why I blame Joe Biden for the voting rights legislation not passing yesterday.
0:39.0	Yes, there are multiple people to blame.
0:43.0	But Joe Biden needs to be front and center. I'll tell you why.
0:47.0	This is Sean King and you are listening to...
0:50.0	The breakdown.
0:54.0	The breakdown.
1:09.0	Everybody listening to this has been a student at one time or another.
1:14.0	Elementary school, middle school, high school, college, grad school.
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1:21.0	Have you ever been in this position?
1:25.0	It's the best metaphor or illustration that I can give.
1:30.0	Have you ever not really prepared for an exam?
1:35.0	You didn't really study.
1:37.0	You didn't really know the material.
1:41.0	You aren't even like really big into the topic itself.
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