Kamala Harris’ handlers keep her from speaking in unscripted settings for a reason.
Like with Joe Biden, nothing good comes from letting Kamala Harris speak in unscripted settings.
And Kamala Harris made one promise that Chuck Schumer knows is a bad idea.
Kamala Harris promises to nuke the filibusterÂ
Kamala Harris’ handlers limit her interviews to only local outlets.
The handlers know that local outlets will ask softer questions and not pushback on topics that make candidates uncomfortable since this is likely their one and only opportunity to interview a potential President.
Kamala Harris’ handlers figured they were sending Kamala into safe territory when they agreed to have her go on Wisconsin’s Public Radio.
But Kamala Harris made news for all the wrong reasons.
In the interview, Kamala Harris announced she would support nuking the filibuster to allow Democrats to pass an abortion-on-demand bill with just 51 votes.
“I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe, and get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do,” Harris stated.
There is no such thing as an issue-specific carve out for the filibuster.
It’s all or nothing.
Nuking the filibuster for abortion means eliminating to impose nationwide vote by mail, amnesty for illegal aliens, and adding Washington, D.C. as well as Puerto Rico as the 51st and 52nd states.
Democrats played with fire before on the filibuster and got burnt.
In 2013, the then-Senate Majority Leader, the late Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, triggered the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for lower court and cabinet nominations.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned Democrats they would soon regret this decision.
“I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you will regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think,” McConnell said in a floor speech at the time.
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It didn’t take long for Democrats to realize the error of their ways.
After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, Republicans paid Democrats back by eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees.
Chuck Schumer could see the impending defeat coming and told CNN in January 2017 that he argued against eliminating the filibuster for judicial picks.
“I argued against it at the time. I said both for Supreme Court and in Cabinet should be 60 because on such important positions there should be some degree of bipartisanship,” Schumer stated. “I won on Supreme Court, lost on Cabinet. But it’s what we have to live with now.”
Schumer regretted the move.
“Wish it hadn’t happened,” Schumer added.
Five years later, Democrats really regretted eliminating the judicial filibuster.
That’s because in 2022, the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Trump’s three Supreme Court picks provided the decisive votes.
Kamala Harris is opening up a can of worms with her pledge to eliminate the legislative filibuster.
Democrats like Chuck Schumer know how this can boomerang on them.
