re: #263 Big Beautiful Door

McConnell will only have a vote on Kavanaugh if either 1) he has at least 50 votes or 2) Trump absolutely refuses to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination and having a losing vote is the only way to move forward. He doesn’t want his Senators to have to make bad votes just before the mid-terms when the Democrats have a real chance of winning control of the Senate.

If they back down on Kavanaugh, the GOP loses face and loses votes among its base.

If they approve him, they lose votes from the rest of the electorate.

I assume they will just damn the torpedoes and vote him in