The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an ā€œauthentic championā€ for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.

The farm workersā€™ union was co-founded by Cesar Chavez, the late grandfather of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who Biden named as his 2024 campaign manager. Her father, Arturo Rodriquez, is a past UFW president.

Julie Rodriguez and ā€œspecial guestsā€ were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.

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    Sheā€™s not even a Democrat anymore. I personally think democrats need to just tank the filibuster at some point. Some democrats fear what would happen at some future hypothetical Republican senate without a filibuster, but I personally think thatā€™s silly, as Republicans will probably just get rid of it whenever they feel itā€™s advantageous to them.

    Democrats are clearly better than the alternative party (and the third party candidates havenā€™t exactly been stellar), but we also need to be active in the primary elections and keep getting more progressives in there and boot people like Sinema out.

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      I personally think democrats need to just tank the filibuster at some point.

      They should have done so already. They wonā€™t. They love their procedural excuse for inaction.

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        I donā€™t buy that one bit. Politicians want to be re elected, and itā€™s far easier to run on a record of having done something. A lot of people voting hardly even know what a filibuster is or why it would have prevented something from happening. In one Monmouth survey linked below, only 19% of people called themselves very familiar with a filibuster. Itā€™s not exactly going to help them to get re elected by failing to do anything then appealing to a vague parliamentary procedure most people are hardly aware of. Do you seriously see campaign ads going, oh look at the good things I was going to do but didnā€™t but itā€™s okay cause parliamentary procedure made it hard, vote for me again. Theory makes no sense.

        https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/filibuster-polls-analysis/index.html

        And again if you want the filibuster elimated, youā€™re best bet is on the democrats. They almost managed it for the voting rights bill, with 48 democrats for making a filibuster exception, only 2 against, and every single republican against.

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          Do you seriously see campaign ads going, oh look at the good things I was going to do but didnā€™t but itā€™s okay cause parliamentary procedure made it hard, vote for me again.

          No, I see them being like ā€œour opponents are fascists and you have no choiceā€ with heavy overtones of ā€œshut up and be happy, peasant.ā€