Soon: key senate vote on sweeping election reform bill; NYC voting now after chaotic final 24 hours of mayoral race; Officials: Biden will miss July 4 goal of 70% of adults with 1 shot;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Biden bracing himself for a major part of his agenda to die on the Senate |
| 0:08.2 | floor. |
| 0:09.2 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:11.8 | A showdown in the U.S. Senate just minutes away with the Democrat sweeping election reform |
| 0:17.6 | bill likely to fail a key vote. |
| 0:20.5 | Are there really not 10 Republicans willing to cross the aisle just to start debating this? |
| 0:26.4 | The shot clock winding down. |
| 0:28.5 | The U.S. on pace to miss President Biden's 4th of July vaccination goal. |
| 0:33.6 | So now to mix sports metaphors, Biden is moving. |
| 0:37.5 | The goalposts Dr. Anthony Fauci will join us live. |
| 0:40.8 | Plus Kim Jong-un's sister taking a swipe at the U.S. the new warning from nuclear North |
| 0:46.3 | Korea. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper and we start with breaking news in our politics lead |
| 0:58.6 | and one of President Biden's top priorities about to die an ugly death on the floor of |
| 1:04.6 | the U.S. Senate. |
| 1:05.6 | In the next hour, the Senate is set to vote to advance a sweeping election reform bill, |
| 1:11.0 | the so-called for the People Act. |
| 1:12.7 | The bill would, among other things, make election day a public holiday, would expand early |
| 1:17.0 | voting to at least 15 consecutive days. |
| 1:20.7 | It would ban partisan gerrymandering. |
| 1:23.2 | Some of the other more controversial measures include expanding public financing of campaigns, |
| 1:28.5 | requiring many states to overhaul their voting and machines. |
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