Oops. Barrett would have been a breeze. Kavenaugh wasn’t even on tje list of 25. He was added later when he said president’s can’t be charged for anything in office.
NOPE.
Collins and Murkowski indicated they would vote “NO” on Barrett.
Here's something to consider here:
Barrett would have played much better as a nominee in terms of political optics, but remember that she would have been a total outsider with no Beltway ties to help her through the process. Kavanaugh has been a political and legal fixture in Washington for years.
As someone else pointed out earlier, the Democrats in this charade have managed to do something I never would have thought possible up until a week ago: They managed to piss off both the Trump "Deplorales" and the Republican Establishment at the same time.
Do a quick search on the various blog posts and Twitter posts from Eric Erickson over the last week or so. This guy was about as rabidly anti-Trump as anyone you'll find in the Republican Party, and he's been on fire in defense of Kavanaugh.
I believe Barrett was named a candidate at the same time as Kavanaugh. I don’t believe Gorsuch was on the first two lists either.