Flake is leaving because Arizona voters HATE him and he had no chance of being re-elected, NONE. This apparently hurt his widdew fewings and he’s blaming Trump for the fact that his political career is over.
He had dreamed of spending 30 more years in the Senate, acquiring milions and milions of dollars over the years. In spite of his repeated sanctmonious TV rounds of “I’m as Honest and Patriotic as Strzok and Comey,” he knows his career is dead, he’s a nothing and a nobody. He’s now auditioning to be another cheap B rate Trump Hater for CNN or MSNBC.
His ‘friends’ on the left have likely offered him a lot for a delay vote and later a no vote.
Nov 6 is only six weeks away.
If the left thinks they can delay Kavanaugh a couple weeks more, then scuttle the Kavanaugh nomination with a Flake no vote, they can move to hold off any further nomination review until after the Midterms where they hope to take the Senate and stop any POTUS appointments on any judicial openings.
Delay, Delay, Scuttle, Midterms, Take Senate.