KPIX-CHANNEL 5 (SAN FRANCISCO) -- All indications are that President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will move ahead with a Supreme Court nominee. So the first question is: what if they succeed?
“Republican senators, this is the most important thing,” said San Francisco State University Political Science Professor Jason McDaniel. “They’ve been talking about this for decades.”
McDaniel believes there is very little doubt McConnell will take his shot. The big questions now surround the math in the U.S. Senate.
“He’s got a three-vote majority,” McDaniel explained. “He can lose three votes, Murkowski, Collins, Romney, Gardner, something like that, Thom Tillis. He can lose three of those and still get a vote because this can’t be filibustered.”