Texas Democrats, Biden up intra-party pressure on voting rights: The Note

The urgent question for Dems is whether they can make any changes of their own at the federal level, while they have power in Washington if not necessarily enough votes.

The TAKE with Rick Klein The Democratic lawmakers who ditched Texas for Washington in advance of Tuesday's legislative session would love to convince Republicans to change their minds and shelve new voting restrictions. So would President Joe Biden, who is headed to Philadelphia to stake a fresh claim to an issue his White House is framing as central to democracy. But their most important intended audience remains inside their own party. It may even be directed at as few as one or two senators in particular -- a certain very small group of lawmakers who say there's no scenario under which they will vote to change filibuster rules.