With the death of Graham, will it be more difficult to confirm Blanche as the AG ?

[kentuck]

Also, with Mitch on the sideline?

Thom Tillis has said that he would block the nomination. We will see if he is ready to put his money where his mouth is?

It is unfathomable that they would appoint such a blatant crook to be Attorney General of the United States. But, if Trump wants him....

Who is going to say NO?

He doesn't need to be nominated. He needs to be convicted.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's been said that Lindsey Graham was the "whip" of the Senate.

He'd go to reluctant Republicans and use the carrot-and-the-stick logic of "The President will be mad at you and you won't get the funds and projects you promised your constituency".

Then he'd go to Democrats (across-the-aisle) and persuade them to vote for something they didn't believe in, their constituencies didn't believe in.

Now that Graham's gone, there isn't another Republican in the Senate who can whip up the votes for Trump.

Blanche is a dead man walking and will stay that way unless the Senate is not convened during a recess.

[karynnj]

2. You would think Blanche 's role in moving Maxwell to a better prisoon

would make him toxic. The problem could be that between people up in the Senate, especially Collins(me), Husted (oh) and Sullivan(ak) and people like Cassidy, Cronyn and Tillis who Trump has no further leverage over that he should fail - completely independent of McConnell and Graham's empty seat.

McConnell is in rehab, which is very likely in DC. If so, he can be helped in, as Strom Thurman and later Ted Kennedy were, to cast an important vote. (Here, I suspect more likely it gives him an excuse to avoid a toxic vote.) As to the SC vote, the governor should quickly make that appointment. I know nothing about the governor, but he is likely to be a Trumper. So dependent on timing of the appointment and the vote, the SC seat may not be any different as far as the vote goes.

For any Senator up for for reelection, the Democratic opponent should be able to characterize a vote for Blanche as covering up the Epstein Network. If the Republicans really make the effort to ram him through it will possibly cost them the Senate.