No, you can't figure it out.
That's because there is no angle - they were this stupid.
And it was stupid. - it will now stiff arm away any vacillating rinos to their cause.
In real terms, if they had played it correctly, they could have picked up a few more seats without the fuss of an actual election.
But again, that is not the democrat party.
Arlen was so used to the wheeling and dealing away of their constituency’s core values for gain of power that he thought that the dems dealt like that.
But the real way that they deal is to smack your face right off. - IOW, you just got bitch slapped by a party of real bitches... and their constituent's will cherish them for doing it
Nah, there has to be more to this. He wouldn’t go into a deal like this with his six un-covered.