Tammy Baldwin: “I had already been meeting with a group of them pretty much…”

“So part of the reason why I feel like I had some real ability to persuade some of the Republicans that I did to get on board with the Respect for Marriage act is because I had already been meeting with a group of them pretty much individually, but a substantial number trying to gauge where they would be on the Equality Act. Obviously, none had signed onto the Equality act, so there were no Republicans on it. And obviously we need to get up to 60 votes in order to overcome a filibuster.” (20:02–20:14)

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