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At today's Senate Democratic leadership press briefing, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was asked about today's NYC mayoral primary.
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00:00Questions, stop yelling, stop yelling.
00:04Is there a way, thank you, is there a way that Democrats can force a ruling against the current policy baseline that Republicans are trying to use?
00:10And did you vote in the New York mayoral race?
00:12I did vote. I was early voting, I think the first day on Sunday.
00:17I'm keeping my ballot to myself.
00:20But the bottom line is that overruling the parliamentarian would be something Thune said he'd never do.
00:30He always said we'd be for regular order and maintain the filibuster.
00:35This is an effect, is not maintaining the filibuster because they're doing this in a sneaky way to try and get either a 51 vote or no vote.
00:45It's violating the filibuster.
00:47No, go ahead.
00:48Do you think the winner of the Democratic Party, though, in your primary in New York, that could be the only person from that parliament that stays on the ballot in November?
00:56Let's wait and see the results today.
00:58Leadership.
00:58Leadership.
00:59Leadership.
00:59Leadership.

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