With voting rights bills fizzling in Congress, can Harris convince voters to care?

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris held her highest profile event since grabbing the helm of the White House’s voting rights efforts earlier this month, meeting with a group of rogue Democratic state lawmakers from Texas Wednesday to highlight what they call a national threat to democracy.

Harris’ White House outreach could help galvanize opposition to a wave of Republican-led bills around the country that would likely curtail voting, but she faces a tough reality in Washington. A sprawling Democratic bill, the For the People Act, aimed at expanding voting rights does not have the votes to win approval in the Senate, where it is expected to be debated next week. A second, more narrowly