Showdown votes: Democrats not in sync

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It is seldom that two senators, neither in the Senate leadership, wield as much power at this point in time as West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. It is a simple yea or nay vote cast by Manchin and Sinema upon which a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, and the transformation of the U.S. economy into a European-style social democracy, depends. Doug McKelway has more.

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