I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

President Obama sounded an alarm for us as a country tonight and specifically an alarm

for his Democratic party.

Is the fate of the Democrats really in the hands of one man?

No, not President Biden.

Joe Manchin, Senator from Ruby Red West Virginia.

He does appear to be the key 50th vote in the Senate and he has struck a position that

is praised by Trump, not his own party.

Manchin most recently said, I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the

already weakening binds of our democracy.

And for that reason, I will vote against the four the People Act.

Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.

He said he does support the John Lewis Act, which is the companion piece to the voting

legislation from the Democrats, the other part of the four the People Act.

The John Lewis Act would block states from passing the laws we have seen restricting

the ability to vote.

But if the party can't get any buy-in from the right and can't get their full 50, are

they done?

This prospect has one progressive congressman from New York calling Manchin out as the new

Mitch McConnell, who of course did everything in his power to block Obama's agenda.

Remember, he said, my job is to make him a one-term president.

And then you heard him say just last month in case you didn't get it the first time that

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