Rachel Bovard
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They will add Puerto Rico as a state.
They will add D.C.
as a state.
They will overturn election law.
They will pack the Supreme Court.
They will lock in their power base and Republicans will never win again.
I want us to have that power.
Right.
So in my mind, I agree with the critique.
We don't currently have the votes.
You know, when I talk to people, what would you do if you nuke the legislative filibuster?
They say, oh, we could pass the SAVE Act.
Really?
Because Mitch McConnell has been sitting on that in committee.
Mitch McConnell is bottling up the SAVE Act, which if people are unfamiliar with it, requires proof of citizenship to vote.
For some reason, Mitch McConnell finds that offensive.
So I actually do think it's correct on the legislative side to say we probably don't have 51 to do anything that we want to do.
But the blue slip is separate from that.
Right.
The blue slip is simply about putting these nominees on the floor.