caucus from uniting that high one, some democrats are started indicating, well, they ve got a change of heart. republicans are expected to go as far as to block any debate on voting rights. once the issue comes to the senate floor tomorrow afternoon. back with us tonight is david bluff, former obama campaign manager and senior adviser to the president. he s also on the board of directors for the obama foundation. to miller, i contributed to that former communications director for job bush. expected to fail tomorrow. you went into the white house after he said he wanted to make barack obama one term president so what should democrats do next? well chris, we need to protect our democracy in the constitution so the natural proposal is getting support. you know, i think president obama today said there was a lot of light. he didn t think about foreign
mcconnell on board and i think that s why it s so important for the democrats. for them, it s to make sure that the essential reforms are in this to prevent things like we saw last year with the republicans trying to steal the election and to make voting as expensive as possible in ways that are popular. i think that this change on voter i.d. is really smart for democrats and this is all the polls that you need like voter i.d.. if this is really a crisis that we re in and i think that s something that david and i agree with and most of those viewers agree with the democrats need to get through the popular democratic reforms that are necessary to safeguard the democracy and not worry is much with all the nice to have s. i think the switch on voter i.d. is a good sign that they re doing that. let me ask you one more thing about the sort of strategy in the way the democrats might approach this time. and play something that clare said earlier on this network. take a listen.
my support for retaining the 60 vote threshold is not based on the importance of any particular policy. it s based on what is best for our democracy. the filibuster compels moderation and helps protect the country from wild swings between opposing policy polls. i wonder if there are democrats who believed that but don t say it out loud. tell me what your take on that is. i think there definitely are democrats were very happy to let cinema and mention essentially be the face of the opposition to changing the filibuster. but they re also uncomfortable with this and it s not so much that just the idea of the senate as an institution and the importance of protecting that is they think they re what would happen if republicans were in control and have the majority and didn t have a filibuster and cinema even side some of those examples. moments where she thinks that filibuster needs to be in place in order to protect abortion rights. in order to be able to protect rollbacks on climate chan
i think it doesn t matter that much as far as getting senators because i don t think the votes are there. i think it matters very much as far as 2022 is concerned and whether or not an insurrection is like kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the house the democrats to do everything possible to focus on the popular stuff as part of safeguarding democracy and not worry is much about all the things that some of the interest groups might have wished they could ve had. you re not in their david. absolutely. i mean i think that 2022 is we can even say it s more important in 2020 because what s happened after that so if the republicans win the house and the republicans win the senate then we head into a presidential election here. you re going to have most of the republican parties no matter what happens in that election, republicans will find a way to guarantee that so i don t think senators necessarily but listen, the senate races next year are super competitive states.
off so that s probably helpful to mention. we re getting some criticism from the left and the right and so this is in could compromise but sentiment mention, others who have concerns have to find a way forward because our democracy is on the clock right now. notion that somehow republicans won t try and steal an election in 22 or 24 is preposterous, even with sinema s comments about the filibuster concerned that if democrats got rid of the filibuster entirely in part, the republicans would make them pay a price. listen, i may be wrong about this but i think much mcconnell will get rid of the filibuster when he s next in control of the senate. so that s gonna happen. so the democrats at the very least are gonna save democracy. but how? the question is how? charles blow had this message for democrats today. democrats, republicans don t want you to win. it s that simple. they want no successes on your watch and they certainly don t