Yep .... its the play in order to get an extension on the so called "investigation". .... to get past midterms. And it doesn't have to be true. Avenattis little whore claiming gang rape, that everyone knows is not true, didn't have to be truthful, doesn't even have to directly implicate Kav ... just make some noise and get it into the Lame Brain Media. That's all it takes.
The U.S. Senate has 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats (including two independents). The 2018 Senate election takes place on November 6, 2018. There are 35 seats up in 2018*, of which 26 are held by Democrats. That party will need to gain 2 seats to take control.
This mornings only purpose was to send it to the floor. Grassley did that. Dems thought they could stop it with Flake and the jacked it up.
Independents are independent and not democrat; which is why I am not bad at math and said 47.... Again, there are Dems up for election who can very-well lose their seat with a no vote. Flake is out regardless. Anyone who counted his vote before all this was probably already missing a few screws. As I said, the ball is 100% in Mitch's court.
I haven't forgotten the tiebreaker but we lose Flake, Collins and Murkowski we are toast. Collins just said she will go with Flake. We are fucked if we lose all 3.