President Joe Biden said Thursday the Democratic Party was united despite a high-profile rift with two senators that blocked sweeping voting-rights legislation a day earlier.
“I know we’re disappointed by last night’s vote, Kamala [Harris] and I are deeply disappointed but we’re not deterred,” Biden said during a Democratic National Convention Grassroots Town Hall held virtually on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
The votes were expected to fail due to the two Democrats’ opposition, and without a rule change, a 60-vote threshold is needed to avoid a filibuster. Biden called the midterm elections this year “critical” as Democrats cling to slim control of both houses of Congress, with the vice president serving as a tiebreaker vote in the evenly divided Senate.
Protesters gather outside the White House to urge the Biden administration to pursue voting rights legislation on Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington.“But we have unity in the Democratic Party,” Biden said. “Forty-eight of the 50 Democrats vote with me on everything and the other two vote with my on 80 percent.”
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