The Occam’s Razor answer is that Murkowski is holding out for more pork. Fortunately she’s about the most buy-able vote we’ve ever seen on our side of the aisle.
I know there is all this drama out there, but I honestly have never been worried about the GOP putting up 50. This was always a 52-55 vote to confirm... nothing in the past few weeks changed that.
However if by some craziness Kavanaugh is not confirmed, Trump should immediately denounce the partisan character assassination, say he will NOT let this good man be destroyed and will resubmit him for the seat in January when the new senate is seated.
Yes that means a full session down a man, but it also makes the midterms a referendum on the court and will force every senator up for re-election and their opponents to state their intentions to their voters.
She’s definitely playing the role, voted against Cloture...
We’ll see how she does when the confirmation vote happens...