Ahead of the first night of the Democratic National Convention, where the party hopes to convey a united front going into the final stretch of the 2020 campaign, Alabama Sen. Doug Jones said that even if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in the new year, he thinks Joe Biden
, whom he has known for 40 years, would first try to"find common ground" rather than push to eliminate the filibuster rule, which effectively makes it so at least 60 senators have to agree on legislation in order for it to pass.
Jones, a moderate Democrat facing perhaps the toughest Senate reelection battle this November, said he would encourage Biden to take this path, adding that he would be"very reluctant" to change the filibuster. "I'm hearkening back to, you know, the days of despair in Alabama... the Montgomery bus boycott, the church bombing in 1963, the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- those things that people found common ground and unified around and bringing people and how far we've come, and Joe Biden being that unifying force," Jones said, previewing his remarks.It's not a normal convention by any means, Jones stressed --"no bright lights ... no cheering crowds.
"That is the most important thing, I think, that can come out of this convention -- that we are a diverse country and have diverse voices and diverse people, and we have got to gather around together, we've got to come together as a whole," he told"Powerhouse Politics." MORE: Trump campaign adviser accuses Dems of trying to change the rules on mail-in voting, acknowledges Sen. Kamala Harris eligible to serve
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