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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @DemWrite
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Seriously. Stop it.

Don’t set false expectations for Democrats here. They LITERALLY do not have the power to stop this.

Yes they should fight. (@SenSchumer: we have your back!) But the only weapon is rhetoric. They (we) need to convince 2+ GOP Senators to ACTUALLY stop this. /1
When McConnell held up the Garland nomination, the GOP had the MAJORITY. They were in charge. Apples and oranges.

Dems have no more power than when they tried to filibuster Gorsuch and McConnell changed the Senate rules. /2
If we set up the expectation that Dems have to stop this or we’ll vote them out, we might as well just hand the 2018 election to the GOP.

YES fight. YES pressure. YES have the Democrats’ back. But we have to understand that they have no real recourse here. /3
To prevent a nomination from sailing through, we need McCain, Corker, Flake, Murkowski &/or Collins to play ball.

Pressure THEM.

SUPPORT the @SenateDems as they try to win in the court of public opinion.

I agree with Chris Matthews’ passion. But his argument holds no merit.
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