Fetterman to get rare filibuster backup with new crop of Senate Democrats

By David Sivak

Published November 7, 2026 6:00am ET

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) won’t be the lone Senate Democrat defending the filibuster next year.

Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor elected in Kansas on Tuesday, would vote to keep the 60-vote threshold intact, while former Gov. Roy Cooper, the senator-elect in North Carolina, hasn’t been quite so definitive but praised it recently as a firewall to stop “bad legislation.”