By Quinn Scanlan
...Alabama Senator Doug Jones (click here) said that even if Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress in the new year, he thinks Joe Biden, whom he has known for 40 years, would first try to "find common ground" rather than push to eliminate the filibuster rule, which effectively makes it so at least 60 senators have to agree on legislation in order for it to pass.
"I think Joe ... is a man of the Senate, and I think what he will want to do initially, is he will want to test both Democrats and Republicans -- not one or the other -- but test both of them to try to find common ground to move things forward," Jones said on a special edition of ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" podcast Monday, noting he hasn't spoken to Biden about the issue.
There have been growing calls within the Democratic Party to eliminate this rule, most recently and notably by former President Barack Obama, who called the filibuster a "Jim Crow relic" while eulogizing the late Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend, during his funeral last month.
Jones, a moderate Democrat facing perhaps the toughest Senate reelection battle this November, said he would encourage Biden to take this path, adding that he would be "very reluctant" to change the filibuster....
