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Progressive Group That Helped Elect AOC Targets Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema for Replacement A progressive group called the No Excuses PAC aims to replace West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, claiming the Democrats "stand in the way of progress."
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© Photo by Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images/Getty Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is shown above attending the confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill January 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. The No Excuses PAC is looking to replace both Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. The co-founders of the No Excuses PAC are searching for candidates to run against the pair since both Manchin and Sinema are up for re-election in 2024.Two of the PAC's co-founders, Saikat Chakrabarti and Corbin Trentare, are former aides to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In 2018, the PAC helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to Congress.
On its website, the PAC claims that Manchin and Sinema "stand in the way of progress" because they sided "with Republicans to shrink their own party's pandemic relief, climate, and economic investment plans."
"Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have both pleaded to help Republicans to negotiate their own party down from real solutions to half measures in the name of 'bipartisanship," the PAC says on its website, adding "we will replace them" if they don't change their ways.
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Another reason the PAC is calling to replace Manchin and Sinema is because they oppose eliminating the filibuster, a political procedure that occurs when a senator speaks on the floor for a prolonged period, without breaks, as a way to delay voting on a proposed bill.
In order to stop a filibuster and pass a bill, there needs to be a supermajority of 60 votes, which has become increasingly difficult to meet.
Progressives have pushed Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden to end the filibuster. They argue that, in an evenly divided Senate, it will be challenging to gather enough Republican support to pass portions of Biden's legislative agenda.
"The only real way to pressure any of these folks and hold them accountable to their promises is to threaten their power, and threaten the seat that they hold and threaten their re-election," Chakrabarti told Politico.
"We sort of have this theory that the voters in Arizona and the voters in West Virginia would care more about action. They care more about jobs and their community and money in their pockets than they do about an arcane Senate rule called the filibuster," Chakrabarti added.
In January, a spokesman for Sinema told The Washington Post that the senator is "against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster." Manchin shares Sinema's viewpoint, saying he will not vote to change the filibuster.
The committee's website notes that they have already begun running advertisements in both West Virginia and Arizona targeting Manchin and Sinema, and are in the process of recruiting possible candidates to run against the pair of Democratic senators.
Newsweek reached out to the No Excuses PAC, Manchin and Sinema's offices, but didn't hear back in time for publication.
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Comment - The progressive rag newsweek continues to show it is all about Progressive (meaning marxist0 propaganda and hatred of freedomd and teh Constitution.
Fun to see the DPSTR/ccp raicals tearing into each other - and I hope they do get rid of "moderate Democrats" - an Oxymoron if there ever was one.
the more "Progressive" radical the DPSY/ccp party - the better for 2022!!
You go girl - go AOC and fellow marxists.
show the reality of your radical marxist totalitarian plans for America - that is the 'progress' you cite - that is teh rality - a Venezuelization of Amerika under a marxist jack boot fascist authoritarian regime
with millions in AOC CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!!
DPST/ccp Devotees such as 1b1 - use your mind and see what the DPST/ccp party really is !