Posted on 07/07/2018 11:15:12 AM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON — Democratic senators running for re-election in red states where President Donald Trump remains popular face an agonizing choice over his coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead of the midterm elections, or stick with the party and possibly sacrifice their own seats — and any chance at a Democratic majority in 2019.
The actions of a handful of Senate Democrats struggling to hold their seats in those states — notably Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — will have broad implications for the party at a critical political juncture.
A decision by one or all of them to try to bolster their standing with Republican-leaning voters in their states by backing the president’s nominee would undermine Democratic leaders as they try to sustain party unity. And if their votes put the president’s choice on the court, it could hasten the move to the left by the party’s aggressive activist core, while intensifying the clamor for new, more confrontational leadership.
But if they hold together on a “no” vote, those senators could not only surrender their own seats, but by expanding the Republican majority, they could also narrow the path of Democrats to a Senate majority for years to come by ceding those states to Republicans.
“It is a terrible vote,” Jennifer Duffy, a longtime nonpartisan analyst of Senate races for the Cook Political Report, said about the showdown, which will escalate Monday with the scheduled official announcement of the nominee.
It could not come at a worse time. A final confirmation vote will probably be called just weeks before an election in which Democrats are defending a sprawling battleground, including 10 states carried by Trump,
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Hey don’t worry about it. Schumer already scre*** all of you by filibustering Gorsuch and forcing the change to simple majority. It was the only card you had.
There is a cadre of Democrat politicians who get elected and re-elected by pretending to be Americans.
The Democrat Party has gotten away with it for years. Hopefully those days are finally coming to an end.
“It is a terrible vote”
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Elections have consequences, as Obama said.
Obama also said, that if you want to be in power to make decisions, set policy, etc. Then get out there and win elections. Make you case to the people and win elections, to paraphrase Obama.
Trump and Republicans took that advice to get out there and win elections to be in the position to make decisions.
Yep Schumer screwed up badly in retrospect, by doing the filibuster fight over the Gorsuch nomination.
If the filibuster rule was still there, they might actually have some leverage here.
Yes, the “bind” of listening to their actual constituents in West Virginia, North Dakota and Indiana who will probably want this judge confirmed, or out-of-state left-wing activists in California telling them otherwise.
ALL representatives should be in a terrible bind. To think that the votes of Collins/Murkowski could hinge on what a few Democrats vote on, giving them ‘cover’.
So the Dem senators are actually going to have to weigh a political decision for a change? Sucks to be them.
Now pray we get two more picks in the next 7 years. Then we’ll have the courts the closest to what our forefathers envisioned almost 250 years ago.
Collins and Murkowski have a weak case for dismissing a nominee based on their PRECEPTION that he/she would overturn Roe vs Wade.
It could not come at a worse time. A final confirmation vote will probably be called just weeks before an election in which Democrats are defending a sprawling battleground, including 10 states carried by Trump,
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From that poorly written sentence, you’d imagine that DJT carried only 10 states.
Senators will never vote to jeopardize their own seats.
If Buzzie keeled over now the left would completely explode..kinda happy thought.
The left will riot and dismember the country state by state if Trump gets 4 picks.
RBG looks like she’s auditioning for either Weekend at Bernies or the Cyrptkeeper’s wife when HBO relaunches Tales From the Crypt.
They will vote party over people every time, count on it.
The timing of all of this is very favorable for the Republicans. It’s hard to imagine that all of the threatened Democrat Senators will have the political courage to commit suicide to deny President Trump’s nominee. When the first Democrat caves (Testor, Donnelly, Manchin, or Heitkamp), Collins and Murkowski will come back to the fold and the rest of the doomed Democrats will jump on the bandwagon. I don’t think that the final vote will be close, and the Democrat temper tantrums between now and Election Day will help us across the board.
“If the filibuster rule was still there, they might actually have some leverage here.”
Between Collins, Murkowski, Flake, Corker, McCain etc he may not need any leverage.
Why only two?
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