Abolishing Filibuster Becomes Pivotal Point in Georgia Senate Race

In this Daily Signal article, Pedro Rodriguez reports that the future of the Senate filibuster has become a major issue in Georgia’s Republican Senate primary runoff.

• Derek Dooley, who is facing Rep. Mike Collins in a Republican runoff, was asked whether he would support abolishing the filibuster or backing a talking filibuster if elected.
• Dooley did not directly answer the question, instead warning that Republicans should remember what Democrats might have done in 2020 if they had been able to bypass the 60-vote threshold.
• He argued that abolishing the filibuster could have allowed Democrats to advance priorities such as packing the Supreme Court or admitting new states such as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
• Dooley framed the larger issue as congressional dysfunction, careerism, corruption, and a Senate that he says is failing to deliver results for voters.
• Collins, a two-term House Republican, has voted three times to send the SAVE America Act to the Senate but has not publicly said whether he would support ending the filibuster.
• The article notes that President Donald Trump, Sen. Mike Lee, and several House Republicans have called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to eliminate the filibuster in order to pass voter ID legislation.
• Trump argued on Truth Social that failing to pass the SAVE America Act would be politically disastrous and called for the filibuster to be terminated.
• The Daily Signal reports that polling cited by the White House shows more than 70% of Americans support the SAVE America Act.
• Neither Collins nor Dooley responded to the outlet’s request for comment.

Read the full story: https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/29/abolishing-filibuster-pivotal-in-georgia-senate-race/