Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House.

“We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe v. Wade,” Warren said on ABC’s “The View.”

She said if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2025, “the first vote Democrats will take in the Senate, the first substantive vote, will be to make Roe v. Wade law of the land again in America.”

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        But they only had at most 48 and the VP because Manchin and Sinema torpedoed the discussion before it could be put to vote.

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          I am speaking as a general statement on the requirements, not rehashing what happened with those two turds in the past.

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          And which party did they belong to?

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            At the time in 2021? … they were both members of the Democratic party. Sinema registered as Independent in 2022 and Manchin only did so at the end of May this year.

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              Correct. They were Democrats, and they were acting like Democrats.