At a town hall meeting in South Carolina hosted by Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday night, Kamala Harris made the following statement: “When elected, I'm going to put in place and require that states that have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive health care, that those laws have to come before my Department of Justice for a review and approval, and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect." O’Donnell then injected a brief note of reality when he commented, "That sounds like it needs 60 votes in the United States Senate.” Momentarily flummoxed, Harris continued, "You know what, everything we need to do is going to require 60 votes in the United States Senate, which is why I say to everybody 2020 is not only about the White House, it's also about the United States Senate.” Duhhh, tell us something we don’t know. Under the best of circumstances, does Harris seriously believe that the democratic caucus can possibly pick up 12 Senate seats in the next election to gain a 60 vote supermajority? Or was this just a ridiculously false campaign promise intended to pander about and capitalize upon recent news about anti-choice legislation passed by a number of states? And why does she assume that once the Trump nightmare is gone, senators would still be unable pass any legislation minus a supermajority, even though republicans would not have the
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