Once Mitch buys Murkow a Bridge to Russia and hands Collins $100 million for anti-opioid program in her name in ME, it;'s a done deal. Manchin and Heitkampf will join for 52 and the loser Flake will piss off his new fangirls by making it 53.
Methinks 55 or 56 yes votes.
Yep
your analysis is correct except the payoff details might be somewhat different
Part of the deal might be that Manchin will find it in his best interest to flip parties