A Senate test vote to debate voting rights legislation failed to override a Republican filibuster Tuesday.
All 50 Democrats voted in favor, including key swings Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
And all 50 Republicans voted against beginning debate on a revised 'For the People Act.'
Vice President Kamala Harris, on the Hill to make another tie-breaking vote, stuck around and chaired the debate and vote
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said voting rights legislation was needed thanks to the 'big lie' that was pushed by former President Donald Trump
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (left) has been working on a proposal that could get GOP support and voted in favor of starting debate on a voting rights package, something that President Joe Biden (right) backs
Vice President Kamala Harris, on the Hill to make another tie-breaking vote, stuck around and chaired the debate and vote.
She's been tasked by President Joe Biden to lead the administration's voting rights push.
Tuesday's result was a foregone conclusion with party leaders digging in their feet on the legislation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped the proposal calling it a 'transparently partisan' effort that shows the left's 'disdain' for Americans.
'Many Democrats would pass [H.R.1] with the slimmest possible majority, even after its companion faced bipartisan opposition over in the House,' McConnell said from the Senate floor Tuesday.
'What a craven political calculation. What a way to show your disdain for the American people's choices,' the Kentucky Republican added.
Sen. Lindsey Graham called it 'the biggest power-grab in modern American history.'
For two days straight, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used the coming vote as a way to bash former President Donald Trump.
'Donald Trump, fresh off a resounding loss in the 2020 presidential election, cried foul and lied — lied — that the election was stolen from him, like a petulant child,' the New York Democrat said.
'There is a rot at the center of the modern Republican Party,' he continued. 'Donald Trump's big lie has spread like a cancer and threatens to envelop one of America's major political parties.'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said from the Senate floor Tuesday that Democrats' voting rights bill is 'transparently partisan' and shows the left's 'disdain' for Americans
'Even worse, it has poisoned our democracy, eroded faith in our elections, which is so detrimental to the future faith people need to have in our democracy,' Schumer said. 'And of course, it became the match that lit a wildfire of Republican voter suppression laws sweeping across the country. Because of one man's lie, Republicans are now doing the dastardly act of taking away voting from millions of Americans, making it much harder for them to vote, and many, many will not.'
He repeated the sentiment on Twitter and added: 'Republicans claim they're making it easier to vote and harder to cheat in an election. But in reality, they are making it harder to vote and easier to steal an
