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Aaron Booth

22 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/kevinliptakcnn/status/1363965208151097345

Possible maybe the WH knows the nomination is going down anyhow? Though, if that is the case here then why not just pull the nomination.

https://twitter.com/kevinliptakcnn/status/1363965208151097345

To follow this logic though: maybe you leave her out to dry to help get Haaland through? If you can convince Sanders to back her out of committee, maybe you let it fail on the floor by however many votes to give Senators a chance to oppose someone to get room to back another?

So then Murkowski can say “I opposed one controversial Biden nominee in Tanden and then backed Haaland because Congressman Young supported her” or something to that effect?

If Tanden is willing to go through that, maybe that’s the ultimate 3-D chess win the administration wants here so instead of getting neither, you can get one of the two?

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And Young is an aye. This will easily pass cloture.

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https://twitter.com/actoraaronbooth/status/1363920478021246976

It would be pretty hard to justify anything other than a 4-3 Biden map (that was plausibly 4-3 Trump in 2016). The question may be: how far to the right of the state would the GOP demand the median district be?

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