>>We’ve seen past votes where Nancy excused pols from voting in a way which would cost them their election. They’ll vote no and their stupid constituents will support them.<<
If Nancy excuses some and not others, the Trump campaign and GOP will concentrate their spending on defeating the ones who voted yes. And Nancy will lose her majority for the second time as Speaker: once under Obama and once under Trump.
She did it with Manchin in West Virginia. He was a so-called ‘blue dog’ Democrat that claimed he was against abortion, but later we found out that he didn’t have any problem with it when his seat wasn’t vulnerable.