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They don't need her vote to confirm him, so she can play pretend she's a maverick bucking the Trump push to fascism.
Except the last guy who hasnt decided yet was one of the GOPers who lost his primary. He might be feeling spicy and decide to vote against it.
You're right that nornally, these sorts of announcements are "hall passes" where the party gives certain members permission to appear moderate in order to win elections, while still getting their agenda passes. This feels different, somehow, engineered so that Cassidy takes the brunt of GOP rage over it, since he's not on the ballot anymore.
Edit: even though this aged like milk, I said what I said....
Her and Collins only come out against something if they're sure it'll pass without their support.
That means at the time of her statement, the votes had already been whipped.
And lo and behold, by the time of my comment, it has been confirmed that Cassidy will support.
Yeah but if Cassidy votes against, she'll switch her vote.
It's amazing more republicans won't vote against someone that lied under oath, but to them that is a feature not a bug.
Lmao is she literally wringing her hands in that photo.
Fucking performative concern for [thing I'm about to / was about to vote in favor of].
And Bill Cassidy will vote in favor. He’s gonna get confirmed anyway.
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