Wake me when the shuttle lands.
Look-he either returns or he doesn’t. We have no control over the situation. Beshear either has a role in it or he doesn’t. Just wait.
It’s like kicking a field goal in the final seconds. He either makes it or he doesn’t. We’re not the ones licking it.
If hís demise is announced on the 7th then the seat remains empty until the midterm. Mitch would have liked that, or maybe left that as his last Will. Anything to reduce the Republican margin and avoid the SAVE act and election clean-up. He was good on judges in the Trump first term but has been a Thune allied block to Republicans since. The old guard Republicans hate being “in power” and will do what they have to do to return to minority status.