( How to train your senators into helpfully abstaining from voting against your cause: rally them in a banquet hall under false (?) pretenses of dining (Sanji), opiates (Wen Qing), wine and... entertainment, inject a spirited speech (Luffy) while the doors close, Stephen Strange's magicians helpfully corner the buildings, and Five and Lan Wangji dash from door to door, discouraging violent outbursts.

Possibly while staring intoxicated, but righteously indignated senators into submission. It turns out electoral abduction is not a local habit. Who might have known?

Throughout the proceedings, he enters the banquet halls only fleetingly to ensure all windows are barred, prior to the locking in. Then, to whoever of his companions who are staying inside: )

You are certain of your safety?

( Later, as the doors lock and he darts between doors to show a sliver of his sword to whichever senator tries to peer out, only to meet him and the magician crowd — he whispers to the nearest person: )

They are... more dutiful than expected. ( Trying rather desperately to join the vote, in fact. )