During his campaign for Senate, Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock repeatedly refused to give a straight answer on whether he supported eliminating the filibuster.

But now that he’s in office and on the side of a razor-thin majority, he’s lobbying his colleagues to support gutting the filibuster in order to pass Democrats’ sweeping election system overhaul bill.

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