Senator Ron Johnson was on Newsmax‘s “Saturday Report” with host Rita Cosby to talk about the SAVE America Act.
Senator Johnson explained that eliminating the filibuster is of great importance so they can pass the SAVE Act. He also explained that if the Democrats get back into power, they would end the filibuster and use that for one-party rule.
“My biggest concern right now is that our supporters are going to be dispirited by the fact that we haven’t been able to pass the SAVE America Act,” Johnson said.
“The reason we can’t do this is because Democrats oppose every election integrity measure because they want to cheat,” Johnson continued.
“I’ve been very publicly supportive of ending the filibuster because Democrats will do so as soon as they regain the power to do it,” Johnson explained.
“We haven’t even taken a secret internal vote to see exactly where the Republican Senators are on the issue,” Johnson said.
“I think we need to take a public vote on a rule change. That would be a 67-vote threshold on the Senate floor. All the Democrat Senators that are in the chamber now that were there, voted to end the filibuster when they had the chance,” Johnson said.
“It would be very interesting to see how they would vote, if they would vote to end the filibuster with the Republicans in charge,” Johnson continued.
“My guess is most Republican Senators would vote to end the filibuster even if they don’t want to do so because our supporters, our voters want us to end the filibuster to pass the SAVE America act,” Johnson said.
“Do you believe that vote is going to happen? And why has there been reluctance for even a vote there in the Senate?” Cosby asked.
“First of all, Republicans would like to retain the filibuster when Democrats are in control, so we can block their destructive legislation. That’s a very legitimate point of view,” Johnson said.
Senator Johnson explained that the Democrats would eliminate the filibuster if they took control of the executive and legislative branches of government. He said Republicans should end it now to benefit the SAVE Act.
“When Democrats have the House, the Senate and the Presidency, they will end the filibuster, so we are saying let’s do it ourselves, so we can actually pass voter integrity measures before the Democrats gain all of the power and they will turn this into, turn America into a one-party nation,” Johnson warned.
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