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El-Sayed and Trump Agree on Filibuster | Salt Lake City News
Michigan’s Senate race just got weird: Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed and former President Donald Trump, political opposites, now agree on one thing—ending the Senate filibuster. El-Sayed wants to end it to force transparency, while Trump seeks to weaken it to push voting restrictions. But here’s the twist: if El-Sayed wins but Democrats stay in the minority, he’d likely back off to avoid empowering Republicans. And Trump? He’d scream if Democrats ever changed the rules later. History shows this is a power game—Democrats nearly broke the filibuster under Biden, only blocked by Manchin…
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