Washington, D.C. – Senate Democrats are trying to change the Senate rules so they can pass their unpopular federal takeover of elections. And as Axios points out, eliminating the filibuster has become a top issue for liberal Democrat candidates across the country: “Democratic Senate candidates across the board are campaigning on a message to reform the filibuster as they seek to increase their party’s majority next year.”
But eliminating the filibuster was (and still is) a losing issue for Democrat Senate candidates. Five Democrat Senate candidates who ran on eliminating the filibuster lost in 2020.
Here’s a look at failed Senate candidates who campaigned on eliminating the filibuster:
- Steve Bullock (D-MT): “I support eliminating the Senate filibuster,” Bullock told The Post. “Washington has become a place where talking has taken the place of doing. The Senate is broken and the partisan filibuster is impeding the functioning of good government by removing incentives to cooperate.”
- Amy McGrath (D-KY): “We need to get our government back. If getting rid of the filibuster is going to do that, to pass legislation that most Americans want and not have it held up and obstructed by one man, then yeah we need to do that.”
- Sarah Gideon (D-ME): “I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions, and I think that the filibuster prevents us from functioning and making progress on issues,” Gideon said.
- Cal Cunningham (D-NC): “Enough is enough. We cannot let a small minority in the Senate continue holding up health care reform — and countless other initiatives supported by the American people and a majority of Senators. Sign my petition to end the filibuster’s stranglehold on the U.S. Senate.”
- Theresa Greenfield (D-IA): “I’d like to think we could make that happen,” Greenfield says. “If we can’t, I would look at reforms to the filibuster, maybe requiring that if you’re going to ask for a filibuster, you know, you show up on the Senate floor and personally make that request.”
Democrats don’t have enough support to pass their radical election power grab. So, they are trying to change the rules. If past is prologue, vulnerable Senate Democrats like Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan, Raphael Warnock, Catherine Cortez Masto, Michael Bennet and liberal Democrat candidates battling it out in primary sprints to the left better be careful. Changing the Senate rules to jam through an unpopular, radical agenda doesn’t sit well with voters. And the failed candidates above are perfect examples.
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