of the vote from white evangelicals. the cycle seems to be repeating itself. it has been repeating itself for over a year. trump says something that his critics and much of the media thinks will anger the relogistics conservatives. saying about abortion, he doesn t need to ask god for forgiveness. the insults that he hurls around. at one point one said trump has, quote, serious moral problems. none of it stopped trump from getting more support from evangelicals than almost any candidate ever. just about anything we are conditioned to believe will turn off evangelicals. so we played the moment from the prayer breakfast. mark, the producer was there.
i m not sure they have all 50 of the 52 potential republican votes. i am not sure they re very ready to go whole hog on this nomination now. that s my reading between the lines. she said the vice president would break the tie if necessary. she also said we don t know what the vote will be. that clearly means it could be worse than 50-50, when it comes down to it. are hearing some issenting voices clearly. she said that. we have about 20 seconds left. bringing the college tour back tonight? to me it s the blues brothers, steve. this is the blues brothers. i have been doing this for almost 20 years. nothing more fun than walking into a college place and in front of college aged young people. politically active. they ll have a lot to talk about. a lot of the show will be driven by the students in the audience. they ll be red-hot. i don t think it will be, thank god, like berkeley. it s not going to be burning up
democrats are talking about this idea of filibustering. if you want to beat a filibuster, you need 60 votes for that. democrats would, under tradition of the senate, have the votes to keep a filibuster going. is that really the standard? you heard chuck schumer say republicans insisted on it for both obama nominees for the supreme court. sonia sotomayor and elena kagan. yes, they both received over 60 votes but, no, republicans did not officially mount filibusters so the democrats didn t have to come up with 60 votes. they said they didn t because they knew they d lose. how many times has a party actually launched a filibuster and forced the vote, tonly twic. sam alito and william rehnquist chief justice in 1986, both there were actual filibuster attempts. you had to come up with 60 votes