re: #104 Danack
This is possibly a factor that will push the election from close, to blowout.
There was no real “winner-take-all” scenario in the cards for Mitch, so he went with the one that (at the time) carried the least risk. And that was ramming through the nominee (any nominee) before Election Day. Yeah, Donny’s ass is cooked and the Senate Repub caucus might be about to disintegrate, but Mitch got the seat filled while he could still count on votes like Collins and Murkowski.