Vice President Joe Biden claimed Friday that “at least five senators” who voted opposed legislation that would have expanded background checks on gun buyers have expressed a desire to change their votes.
Biden highlighted polling data showing that senators who voted against the background checks amendment that fizzled in April have seen their approval ratings plummet at home. Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling has has led the effort to gauge the public fallout over the failed gun legislation.
“I’ve had at least five senators call me and say, ‘Can’t we do something about this?’” Biden said at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas, as quoted by Politico. “The calculus has changed, and so we’re in an effort to try to work out how we can provide another opportunity for those who voted no to change their vote. We all know that’s the hardest thing in politics, to change your vote. That’s why we’ve got to get a rationale, another reason why this could be done by changing the specifics of the legislation.”
