Politico Revels in Democrat Plan to Politicize January 6 Anniversary to Federalize Elections

This week’s solemnity on January 6th anniversary is being covered by the media already. Yet, we still have Politico reveling that the Democrats are attempting to use the occasion to engage in flat out partisanship by federalizing the elections at the state level so as to favor that party.

In fact, Rachael Bade and Ryan Lizza are not at all shy about joyfully hyping in the Monday Politico Playbook that “Dems to use Jan. 6 anniversary to supercharge voting rights push.”

It’s going to be an emotional week for a lot of people on Capitol Hill. Congress plans a variety of tributes and speeches in commemoration of one year since the January 6 Capitol Siege. The opportunity for lawmakers to share their stories about what it was like hiding from angry rioters will be available. A harrowing video of the incident will flood the television screens. Cable news networks will also broadcast it. The Capitol Police leaders will give testimony to the Senate Rules Committee one year later about security conditions.

Following that build-up, it was time for Bade and Lizza to revel in the Democrats flat out politicizing the occasion by steamrolling Senators Manchin and Sinema.

Democrats believe that Thursday will become more than a day to remember. In the Senate, we hear from well-positioned sources, there’s a desire to take the opportunity to supercharge the party’s long-stalled voting rights legislation — possibly even using the anniversary to try to get Sens. KYRSTEN SINEMA, D-Ariz. and JOE MACHIN (D.W.Va.), to embrace rule changes or go nuclear on filibuster.

HERE’S HOW WE EXPECT THIS TO GO DOWN: Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER is expected to lay out a plan today that will bring the party’s push to nationalize voting rights protections to the floor in the coming days. All week, Democrats will argue that the flurry of voting restrictions that have passed in GOP-controlled states over the last year are a direct result of the Jan. 6 riots and the Big Lie promulgated by former President DONALD TRUMP — and that democracy is still very much on the line.

The bill will get filibustered by the GOP — just as it has time and time again.

Yet some Dems think that an argument pegged to Jan. 6 could win over Sinema and Manchin, the party’s two major holdouts against making an end run around the filibuster to pass the voting bill.

Schumer has signaled that when the bill goes down, he will open a debate about changing Senate rules to enable passage of voting measures without the chamber’s 60-vote threshold. The party is pushing Manchinema to make it more difficult for him to continue the debate. WSJ’s Siobhan Hughes has more on the latest voting rights push.

After all this happy buzz, the sad truth finally hit. Politico Playbook dynamic duo as they are forced to admit this blatant act of politicizing January 6 probably won’t work: “WILL THIS WORK? It’s probably not.