I’ve said it for a bit now.
This is their plan to rally the troops.
They have control so they really can’t have a real fight as whoever they want they can appoint…
But they need the perception of a fight in order to get the aborition activists hyper riled up for November.
So, she retires late summer/early fall. They create a fight just in time for the election… but since they control the senate there is no real fight…
Already set the stage to manufacture one by having Manchin say he wouldn’t approve of someone right before the election etc.
He’s retiring so, doesn’t matter if he becomes a major enemy to the base just as long as they get the conflict they need to engage the abortion folks heavily in time for the election .
We shall see but I predicted this when the first articles started appearing inthe press pushing for her retirement
It’s hard to gin up a fight when the outcome is already known and the court balance won’t change at all..................