Yup. Mitch can afford to lose only one vote. Swing GOP Senators have a lot of power precisely because no Dem will vote for Kavanaugh.
Its political blackmail but nothing to be done about it.
” no Dem will vote for Kavanaugh”
Nope. Gonna be at least two conversions, unless they really don’t want to stay in the Senate.
Manchin and Tester come to mind. Probably others.
The Rat party died yesterday. The backbone of that party for three generations was Irish Catholics. Note my use of the past tense. They just took a big dump on that ethnic group and no Kennedy will ever pull them back from the abyss now.