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On the recordOctober 26, 2020
if the Republican -- if this version of the Republican Party is going to keep blocking any progress whatsoever on any issue, if they're going to treat the courts as a place where you just stack right-wing ideologues to promote right-wing policies, just in case there's an outbreak of democracy in the other two branches of government, if they're going to do this, then not only do we have to show up and vote, and vote in large Democratic majorities, but we also have to do things like remove the filibuster to make sure that we can actually pass things through the Senate, and not have Mitch McConnell block every single Democratic priority or any priority.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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msnbc.com

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Jon Favreau discusses President Obama's views on the need to remove Republican obstacles to progress and the importance of voting.

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