While speaking with CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent and host Manu Raju on Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended a potential measure to reopen the government that wouldn’t have provisions on Obamacare in it by saying that “We have brought this issue as a major national issue from zero to a major factor, I think, in the last election. And I think we’re going to continue to make it an issue as we approach the next election in the mid-year.”

During a report broadcast on “The Arena,” Raju played video where he said, “[S]ome people would think that this is capitulation if you only agree to a standalone.”

Durbin responded, “Well, some people need to understand how the Senate works. We have brought this issue as a major national issue from zero to a major factor, I think, in the last

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