Senate majority leader indicates there's not enough support to eliminate filibuster despite Trump push

While President Donald Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to nix the filibuster, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said during an interview on Fox News Radio's "Guy Benson Show" that "there just simply aren't the votes" to eliminate the "60-vote threshold."While Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber, the procedural hurtle serves as a check on the majority-party's power due to the threshold required to advance matters towards a vote in the chamber.Thune suggested that there is likely no more than 10 to 12 of the 53 GOP senators who would vote to eliminate the filibuste