Joe Biden attacked Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) claiming he wasn’t able to pass his voting agenda because they tended to vote with Republicans. We reported how that was a lie, that actually Manchin and Sinema have voted with Biden 100% of the time so far.
Jen Psaki tried to soften up what Biden said a bit, trying to argue it wasn’t really an attack, as though he didn’t actually say what he did. But she failed badly.
But if Biden was trying to put pressure on Manchin and Sinema to switch and vote with him, lying about them didn’t seem like the best way.
So how did that work? What did they think about the message?
Turns out that Sinema had a bit of a message of her own. And she made it in a rather interesting way.
Sinema confirmed that she would not be changing her mind on the question of the filibuster. She was with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) when she gave that message, there to visit the border because of concerns they both have about the border crisis. Her presence there with Cornyn on that particular issue was another point being made to Biden about bipartisanship. Read more…