President Trump declared to reporters Friday that Republicans would not lose a future election if the party's leadership in the Senate moved to eliminate the parliamentary procedure known as the filibuster.

"The Democrats will do this [eliminate the filibuster], so if the Democrats are going to do it, I'm saying Republicans should do it before they get a chance," Trump said. "If we do it, we will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election, because we will have produced so many different things for our people, for the country, that it would be impossible to lose an election.”

He ticked off a list of GOP-backed legislation that could move through the chamber if the procedure was eliminated, including on matters of voter ID laws, mail-in voting and immigration.

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