Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared to say the quiet part out loud during a Wednesday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Schumer told host Willie Geist that a number of Democrats were concerned that Republican-led voter integrity measures could cost them their individual seats in Congress and could ultimately cost the Democratic Party its majority — and they were using that argument to put pressure on Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to kill the filibuster.

Schumer argued that the federal elections overhaul proposed in the Democrats’ “voting rights” bill was too important, suggesting that Republican efforts to stop it lined up with the “way that societies lose democracy.”