time to go to the constituents and say i m part of the trump agenda and people not willing to do so and on most other issues, republicans will fall in line on judges. and people in west virginia can go to joe manchin, what are you going to do? you talk about pressure. i think the pressure is on red state democrats and this helps republicans in the senate. i think that is a very important point. you talk about susan collins and lisa murkowski, what about heidi heitkamp in north dakota and joe donnelly in indiana and joe manchin in west virginia claire mccaskill in missouri. and how do they vote when they trying to walk the line between being good democrats and but being open to trump s judiciary nominee. i think the president is in good shape and i think he has a fre free hand in nominating the most conservative person he can and i think that is who he will. is this going to motivate the progressive base, democratic
personally, but if she gets a sizable vote, it raises more tremors here on the idea that the old idea of the european project, the idea of trading, looking outward rather than inwards, can be it s in danger because of hard right opposition from those who claim nationalism. now, without linking le pen to trump specifically, donald trump has expressed admiration for her. and on top of this, it appears that we ve got russian interference in the french election as we may have had russian interference in the u.s. elections. so, it s that combination of hard politics, influence operations with genuine worries about the economy and the future of europe and france that are the backdrop to this election. it is important to see how this plays out. just an editorial note, though. at this point, french officials not pointing the finger directly at any specific power, though there have certainly, scott, been many parallels drawn, many people looking at what happened in the u.s. with the hacking