Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro said he believedif Democrats won the majority in the Senate in 2020, they should end the filibuster rule and pass gun control.
Castro said, “I believe that on January 20, 2021 at 12:01 pm that we’re going to have a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate and if I have to choose between sticking to a sixty vote filibuster rule that’s no where in the Constitution and that Mitch McConnell is very willing to violate now or getting common-sense gun safety legislation done with at a minimum 50 votes plus the vice president I would choose common-sense gun legislation and make our families safer in this country.”
When asked if he thinks Democrats should get rid of the filibuster, Castro said, “Absolutely yes I do.”
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