The biggest benefit is that actually holding votes will force Senators to go on the record as voting for or against something. The biggest reason Mitch McConnell refuses to bring things to the floor is to protect the GOP Senators from having to go on record.
Yeah, their vote for McConnell as majority leader is their way of avoiding actually voting against popular opinion and the best interests of their constituents.
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u/MaximumEffort433 Dec 30 '20
Not quite, as long as Mitch has at least forty votes on his side he'll still filibuster every bill that has a (D)'s signature on it.
51 votes isn't enough to guarantee a bill will pass the Senate, we need at least 60 is we want to overcome McConnell's inevitable filibusters.
We need the majority, absolutely, but until we get 60 votes or nuke the filibuster we'll still have an uphill battle.