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.@LeaderJohnThune's Real Constituents Don't Live in #SouthDakota Fifty Votes, One Veto, Zero Excuses: How the #SAVE Act Got Buried. Begin with the structural fact, because everything else follows from it. The Senate majority leader is not elected by South Dakota. He is not elected by the country. He is elected by the Senate Republican Conference, by secret ballot, by simple majority. With 53 Republican senators, **the threshold is 27 votes** 27 colleagues hired #Thune, and **only those colleagues can fire him from the leadership** The first road is the talking filibuster. The obstacle is not the Democrats. It is the management of his own conference, the 27 colleague votes that keep him in his chair. The second road runs through the parliamentarian. Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the SAVE America Act FAILS the Byrd Rule and therefore CANNOT RIDE in the reconciliation package. Again, the 27 votes are the obstacle. The third road is the bluntest: **END the legislative filibuster outright**, as Trump has repeatedly urged. Thune ruled it out, and 'the 27' won't remove him. **#Democrats have SAID that they WILL do it, and they've already TRIED to do it!** https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/john-thunes-real-constituents-dont