In Reply to: So now everyone feels good and the Gabbards, Hesgeths posted by blindness on November 21, 2024 at 11:27:13
I also thought the Gaetz pick was just a ploy to distract from other controversial nominees and make Senators expend political capital that they would otherwise use for other nominees. No republican senator wants the obstructionist label that would come with a No vote on multiple nominees. But for that ploy to work Gaetz would have to go through the process and get to a vote. As it stands now republican senators have not had to take a public stance against Gaetz.
So I think something else led to the withdraw. Possibly Trump learned more details of the ethics report and forced him to withdraw. Or Gaetz decided he didn’t want it to come out.