HOT ON THE LEFT:
“‘This is not Russia,’ Rep. Elijah Cummings says in impassioned defense of voting rights,” from Felicia Sonmez: “House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings on Wednesday gave an impassioned defense of voting rights, declaring that the United States ‘is not Russia’ and sharing his mother’s deathbed plea to him on the issue. … ‘One year ago today, on my mother’s dying bed, at 92 years old — former sharecropper — her last words were, “Do not let them take our votes away from us,”’ Cummings said during Wednesday’s hearing. … ‘Voting is crucial, and I don’t give a damn how you look at it.’”
HOT ON THE RIGHT:
“Sen. Manchin surprises students with phone call from Trump,” from Felicia Sonmez: “Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) surprised a group of high school students Wednesday by putting them on the phone with [Trump]. Manchin, who represents a state Trump won by more than 40 percentage points in 2016, was speaking with students from Webster County High School by video chat from his office when the president called, he said in a tweet. Trump ‘took time out of his schedule to talk to the students over speakerphone,’ Manchin said. While Manchin is a Democrat, he often backs parts of Trump’s agenda.”
