No Chance Manchin and Sinema Will Nuke the Filibuster to Pass Voting Legislation

Senate Democrats are poised to kick their multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill to 2022 and take up voting legislation before Christmas. The news prompted yet another round of media speculation that maybe Democrats would change rules governing the legislative filibuster, but both Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are making it clear (for what seems like the hundredth time) that they don’t support employing the nuclear option to change Senate rules by a simple-majority vote.