kavanaugh in the hearings. the republicans hold a slim majority in the senate. mccain s replacement would give them a razor thin 51-49 edge. if democrats units against kavanaugh republicans could need every vote that they can get. not only for the u.s. supreme court confirmation, but for other votes before the 2016 2018 midterms. with me now is eric bradnor, a cnn politics reporter. all right. so, you know, there s a lot of pressure on the arizona governor, right, to make a decision. what s the criteria he would be weighing in order to find a successor, someone to fill this seat temporarily? yeah. there s absolutely a lot of pressure and it s kind of coming from three directions, right. president trump, obviously wants something who is going to be a reliable vote in the senate, kind of a departure from a john mccain or a jeff flake, whereas
attention and have high expectations. it s a lot of pressure from a lot of different directions he has to balance here. eric, while the family then, you re saying is being consulted, what about any considerations being made by john mccain s wife cindy or even particularly post that eulogy from daughter meghan mccain yesterday, don t know if she s still a resident of arizona or if it would matter in this case, whether keeping it in the family is at all a possibility? it seems like a remote possibility. there s been talk about cindy mccain certainly, but the problem is, again, arizona republicans, sort of the irony of the last week as the nation mourns john mccain and sees him as a hero and a patriot, arizona republicans have actually been shifting away from his politics. they ve been turned off by mccain and senator jeff flake