Factually, that’s what he did during his time in office as well. I’m not sure what they thought had changed.

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    Obama never had a supermajority. He got close but peaked at 59 senators in the senate and one in hospital. One shy of 60 is not enough.

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      They only needed 51 votes to ditch the filibuster.