hand we re worried he won t be an independent check against trump. they haven t coalesced around the same message because judge gorsuch is so qualified. democrats really believe that what happened here was a traf c tvavesty. the rule in which a person gets a hearing, et cetera. so i think the issue here is democrats are looking at this nominee and they want democrats to actually test this out. i think the interesting thing that happened this morning is mitch mcconnell saying he won t go nuclear. this is an important issue. i don t think he ruled it out. he didn t rule it out but he says he needs 60 votes, not 50. that s an indication he s not going to go the nuclear route. i think the challenge here is that everything donald trump does makes this more difficult, not easier and is actually in making more democrats stand up.