Shortly before Biden speaks, Senate Democrats will meet (likely virtually, we’re told) and have their latest opportunity to hear from Sens. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) and KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.), neither of whom have budged in their opposition to filibuster reform.

What’s going to happen over the next week, per a Dem source: “I would not expect [Senate Majority Leader CHUCK] SCHUMER to lay out next steps, as it relates to [a] vote schedule, on voting rights, until after POTUS’ voting rights speech. Remember, Schumer had said first Republicans will be given another chance to vote for voting rights legislation. If [the] GOP obstructs again, the Senate would move to debate and consider changing the Senate rules to allow for passage of the voting rights legislation.”

Schumer’s deadline for the rules change debate is a week from today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Unless Manchin and Sinema change their minds, that effort will also fail.

But will anything be salvaged from the ashes of this debate?