But the delay may have been inevitable, given that not all Republicans are solid yes votes.
This additional investigation may placate Collins and Murkowski.
There are always things happening behind the scenes, and the best guess is that they didn’t have 51 firm yes votes from ALL Republicans.
You are completely correct. Graham told us that they didn’t have the votes. They would have never done this if they had 50 Republican votes on Friday. But, they didn’t and this was the price for getting those votes on the Senate floor.
I think that a Senate floor vote without this so called “FBI Supplemental Investigation” would have resulted in a disaster. The Democrats will tell their supporters that they forced a criminal investigation on a 36 year old unsubstantiated allegation. They did no such thing. The FBI will interview a few more persons, review the testimony, and prepare a report.