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In promoting the ‘nuclear option,’ Schumer is flat-out lying about what Robert Byrd said

By Brian Darling
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has commenced an aggressive public relations strategy to bully his fellow Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona into voting to exempt their bill to federalize elections from the Senate’s filibuster rule.

One of Sen. Schumer’s talking points is based on a lie that the late Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd would have supported this push. That assertion is flat-out false.

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