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Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Ryan Lizza. It's Monday. Can Biden and the Democrats get a

voting rights victory anytime soon? This is your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are entering the second week of their push to pass a pair of voting rights bills.

Starting with the president's speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the big question Democrats will be watching for.

Will Biden make a more forceful case for reforming the filibuster?

Biden's Georgia trip will pay homage to the state's civil rights history.

He'll speak at the Atlanta University Center Consortium, which consists of four historically black colleges.

Shortly before Biden speaks, Senate Democrats will meet, likely virtually, we were told.

They'll have their latest opportunity

to hear from Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema, neither of whom have budged in their opposition

to filibuster reform. Here's what's going to happen over the next week, according to a Democratic

source. Quote, I would not expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to lay out next steps as it relates to a vote schedule on voting rights until after the president's voting rights speech.

Remember, Schumer has said that first Republicans will be given another chance to vote for voting rights legislation.

If the GOP obstructs again, the Senate would move to

debate and consider changing the Senate rules to allow for passage of the voting rights legislation,

end quote. Schumer's deadline for the rules change debate is next Monday, Martin Luther

King Jr. Day.

And unless Mansion and Cinema change their minds, that effort will also fail.

But will anything be salvaged from the ashes of this debate?

The main Republican argument against the two bills is that GOP senators don't believe that the right to vote is under attack.

More on that later.

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