I don’t understand that strategy at all. Collins, Murkowski, and Romney will cave.....they have no loyalty whatsoever to the ‘pub base. If he did it NOW, (preferably yesterday when Nancy said there would never be a deal that included the wall), that’s how he would’ve gotten Chuck and Nancy on the ropes. It would’ve made the wall a done deal, and them keeping the gov closed for no reason. If he waits until the traitors cave, it gets perceived as a desperation move.
Maybe so, but if ha jumps too soon then it negatively influences other things he wants, like a vote on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement. Trump needs the Democrats to be seen as blowing things up.