Hawley has been trying to wrap himself in Trump as much as possible and vote against Biden more than any other Republican Senator. Despite that, CPAC’s totally non-predictive Straw Poll sans Trump gives Hawley a whole 3%. He’s not exactly catching fire w/ the base he is courting.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1366124165745508356
We went through this in 2019 with Gillibrand in particular on the left. She didn’t really gain anything by voting against every nominee. Hawley banking that the reward on the right will be greater, but thus far we haven’t really seen much evidence for that.
Even Cotton and Cruz have each backed at least one Biden nomination out of the 10 for the Senate has voted on final confirmation. (Counting Greenfield’s 2 votes as 1) Even Cotton has backed 3 (Austin, Vilsack and Haines).
Hawley told at least one reporter last week he was still undecided on Garland. If he was going to back one Biden nominee at this point it would probably be Garland, though you would have maybe though Vilsack over Garland and he voted against Vilsack.
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