“What Grassley is trying to do is nail down the last few GOP votes. He gets one shot at a committee vote. If that fails, Kavanaugh’s nomination ends.”
That’s not true. The nomination can still be sent to the full senate for an up-or-down vote, just without a recommendation from the committee.
I stand corrected on the getting him out of the committee, but if two GOPers vote NO in the full Senate, we still lose.