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Late Friday, the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal raised the red flag that a Senate with a Democratic majority and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Oval Office after November will dismantle the 60-vote filibuster rule that has long stymied liberal lawmakers.

As the editors noted, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been boasting that a solid Democratic majority could mean that the rule will be "a goner."

In an interview this week, the Democratic leader noted that Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have kept Democrats from even bending the rules to help pass legislation and that, after November, "Well, they’re both gone.”

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That led the WSJ editorial board to lament, "This should put a chill into Republicans, independents, moderates, and swing voters. Democrats claim they merely want to bend the filibuster to protect abortion and voting rights. Yet that would break it for good. The pressure would be immense to add other exceptions, such as to restructure the Supreme Court, make Washington, D.C., a state with two Democratic Senators, or ban state right-to-work laws."

Noting that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has indicated she is on board with what would be a ground-shifting change, the editors continued, "All of this raises the stakes for the Senate races this year. West Virginia aside, Democrats are leading now in every tossup race except for Montana. And there the incumbent, Jon Tester, is barely trailing his GOP challenger, businessman Tim Sheehy. Mr. Tester is refusing to endorse Ms. Harris to cover his progressive voting record, and Mr. Schumer will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep that seat."

Being “that woman from Michigan” as former President Donald Trump once called Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, isn’t the insult he thinks it is, she said on stage at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.

“Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor,” Whitmer exclaimed, received by applause from the Chicago audience filled with other women from other states wearing white outfits like hers as an homage to the suffragettes who fought for women’s right to vote over 100 years ago.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday that former President Donald Trump suggested using nets to stop Asian carp from getting into the Great Lakes.

Pritzker told the Michigan Democratic Party delegation to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday that Trump made the suggestion during a meeting at the White House with governors shortly after becoming president.

Until recently, the defining narrative of the 2024 presidential election was that 81 year-old President Joe Biden was too old to run for a second term in office. But now that Biden is out of the race, 78 year-old former President Donald Trump's increasingly unhinged public statements are now causing concern even for some of his biggest supporters.

In a recent report, the Guardian spoke with Trump supporters Joan and Billy Long, who drove from New York to Pennsylvania to watch the former president speak at a campaign rally. Joan Long told the publication that she's puzzled by Trump's response to Vice President Kamala Harris' nascent campaign so far.