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Democratic Senate candidates see rallying cry in campaign promise to nuke the filibuster

U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Mr. Lamb is among a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls in 2022 campaigning on abolishing the filibuster. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Supporting the elimination of the filibuster has become the new litmus test for Democrats running for U.S. Senate in battleground races across the country.

Masked pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint with a Russian national flag on the right, blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 24, 2014. Russia's present demands are based on Putin's purported long sense of grievance and his rejection of Ukraine and Belarus as truly separate, sovereign countries but rather as part of a Russian linguistic and Orthodox motherland. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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Absentee ballots sit in a ballot box during early voting in the primary election, Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in the Soho neighborhood of New York. New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of becoming the largest place in the U.S. to give noncitizens the right to vote. Legally documented, voting-age noncitizens, who comprise nearly one in 10 of the city's 8.8 million inhabitants, would be allowed to cast votes in elections to pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders under a bill nearing approval. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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Masked pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint with a Russian national flag on the right, blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 24, 2014. Russia's present demands are based on Putin's purported long sense of grievance and his rejection of Ukraine and Belarus as truly separate, sovereign countries but rather as part of a Russian linguistic and Orthodox motherland. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Mr. Lamb is among a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls in 2022 campaigning on abolishing the filibuster. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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