What changed? The Republican Party is replete with cowards like Murkowski, Flake, and Collins. Personally, if I were Trump I would tell McConnel to bring the vote forward and warn both Collins and Murkowski that I would work to defeat them should they ever choose to run again for office. Appeasing people like those three is like appeasing Hitler at Munich.
Gee, we coulda used that rock ribbed Conservative Sarah Palin in the Senate