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Divided Republicans reunite to mount defense of filibuster theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m… While Democrats have struggled to unite members of their Senate caucus, especially their centrist holdouts, to get rid of the #filibuster, Republicans have been lockstep in opposing changes (1/5)

Conservative outside groups have been organizing overtly and covertly to counter Democratic pressure to gut the #filibuster. Heritage Action is targeting “constituencies of Democratic senators in which we have a very large footprint– Arizona, Georgia, West Virginia” (2/5)

Americans for Prosperity, another outside group, funded by Charles #Koch, has launched a six-figure ad campaign focused on Manchin and Sinema (3/5)

Suzanne Clark, the president and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce tweeted the group’s statement, THANKING Joe Manchin for protecting the #filibuster (4/5)

Whether the #filibuster will be dramatically altered depends 💯 on Democrats. NO Republican senator has expressed support for it – and at this point, there are not enough Democratic votes to change it‼️ (5/5)

https://twitter.com/dccc/status/1389627927889956866?s=20

Ted Cruz just sent a very important message to Joe Manchin washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… Sen. Angus King referred to the proposed Republican amendments to S1 and asked Cruz a pointed question: “If this amendment and others that you suggest are accepted, would you vote for the bill?”-->

->Cruz replied: “To be candid, it is difficult to imagine a set of amendments being adopted that would cause me to vote for this bill, it would have to be a fundamentally different bill”

Cruz HAS made this as clear as anyone could possibly ask for. WILL MANCHIN GET THE MESSAGE⁉️