If correct, this explains their demand for a Thursday hearing, and a cross-country drive. Calls for a VOTE NOW DAMMIT ! are premature if the votes aren't there.
Apparently Flake, Collins, Murkowski may want to bend further until they realize they're being played for dupes. Flake knows already, I suspect. Let them know how we voters feel. Grassley knows. No votes are killers....nothing else matters. Late votes mean little
I have read that after Thursday it’s hard to get a new scotus on the court for October,so the clock is ticking.
There need be no vote the nomination can be sent to the entire Senate and if the A.H. want to boycott all it takes is a majority for a vote no Demons necessary.