Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Rookumunavalin. It's Friday. They're the GOP's two favorite Democrats, but can Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema get a deal done on guns? It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Is this Manchinema's moment? West Virginia's Joe Manchin in Arizona's Kirsten Cinema have worked with Republicans

to craft a massive bipartisan infrastructure deal and to save the filibuster.

And now, quote, Republicans acknowledge that because Manchin and Cinema preserved the filibuster,

they need to at least listen to Democrats who are desperate for an agreement to reduce gun violence.

But it goes, Burgess Everton and Marianne Levine report that, quote, Republicans acknowledge

that because Mention and Cinema preserve the filibuster, they need to at least listen to Democrats

who are desperate for an agreement to reduce gun violence.

Per the Hill Pool, when Mention was asked if he can get 10 GOP votes, this is what he had to say.

I don't know why you wouldn't have 70 or 80. My goodness. This is about basically protecting children. If they can't rise to that, they ought to deep dig inside and find out why in the heck we're here. In the GOP conference, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN that he, quote, encouraged Senate Minority Whip, John Cornyn to begin bipartisan

gun talks with Senator Sinema and Chris Murphy.

Cornyn's involvement marks a major difference between him and Texas's other Senator Ted

Cruz.

As the Texas Tribune's Abbey Livingston observes that while Cornyn is, quote, quietly but openly,

leading the party to work with some Democrats to pass bipartisan

gun legislation, Cruz has ruled out policies to restrict guns, and, quote, done a string of

other interviews that have inflamed the left and encouraged the right, chastising Democrats

and the media. If Cornyn and his Democratic counterparts can broker a deal, it will need to get

at least 60 votes to break a filibuster, meaning Democrats

will need to find 10 Republicans on board.

Politica's Natalie Allison writes in today's playbook that GOP candidates and swing states

have been trying to display their proficiency with guns and expressing their full-throated

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