Over the weekend, Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, who is running against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate race in Texas, made some rather shocking remarks about his rabid support for abortion.
While speaking at an event for the Texas Tribune, Allred signaled he would nuke the filibuster in order to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). This came after The Bulwark’s Tim Miller read from a laundry list of far-left talking points should Democrats hold onto the Senate and Vice President Kamala Harris win the presidential election. Included among them is not only a plan to “kill the filibuster,” but also pass the Green New Deal and expand the U.S. Supreme Court. “Is that realistic,” Miller asked Allred.
Evidently, Allred thinks it is, claiming that “the filibuster has to change because it’s broken.” Not only did he go on a lengthy explanation about how the filibuster was used to block civil rights laws–which was done by Democrats–he also brought up nuking the filibuster to pass pro-abortion legislation.
“I want to maintain the bipartisan nature of the Senate,” Allred also claimed, as he then complained about how the chambers operate differently. “The current filibuster doesn’t work, and so to me, we do have to reform it. We have to fix it,” he again stressed. […]
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