{"id":1716,"date":"2026-06-16T19:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:08:53","slug":"they-always-fold-ms-now-panel-expresses-disgust-with-trumps-subservient-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"‘They always fold’: MS Now panel expresses disgust with Trump\u2019s subservient GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tuesday crew of MS NOW\u2019s \u201cThe Moment with Katy Tur\u201d have heard the song before, and all were convinced President Donald Trump\u2019s GOP are going to confirm his controversial AG nomination despite the swarm of complications that come of hiring Trump\u2019s personal lawyer and committed lacky.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it’s going to be somewhat difficult to get him confirmed, although \u2026 they fold on everything when it comes to Trump,\u201d said MS Now contributor Jake Sherman. \u201c\u2026 listen, they all fold, right? I mean, they all fold. [Rep.] John Cornyn [R-Texas] is somebody to keep an eye on. Tillis, Lisa Murkowski [R-Alaska], Susan Collins [R-Maine] \u2014 any number of these people could vote against Todd Blanche, and he has to get through the judiciary committee, which is treacherous and will be treacherous for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

MS NOW anchor Katy Tur could not easily swallow Sherman\u2019s nihilism, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know you say it doesn’t matter, but I think it does matter,\u201d insisted Tur. \u201cI mean, he can be deputy ag for forever, but it does matter politically and it does matter for our country, Alex. It matters whether Republicans are willing to hold the very people that they nominate to the standards that they have given for them, which Thom Tillis laid out pretty clearly during that initial confirmation hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n

But MS NOW senior political analyst and host of the \u201cRunaway Country\u201d podcast host Alex Wagner warned Tur not to get her hopes up, no matter how loudly a smattering of Republicans protested Blanche\u2019s overt dedication to Trump, despite taxpayers footing his bill.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery time we ask ourselves whether republicans will do the right thing, it’s like lucy with the football we keep, keep going after it, Katy. And yet the football keeps disappearing,\u201d Wagner told her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have to ask it. We can’t avoid it,\u201d protested Tur. \u201cWe have to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKatie, my best guess would be [that] I think that John Thune is going to allow some members to vote against Todd Blanche’s confirmation, just like he did on key votes, basically, swing state vulnerable Republicans, whether it’s Susan Collins or others, so that they can say they didn’t vote to confirm him \u2014 which is the coward’s way out, knowing full well that he’ll get confirmation more broadly,\u201d said Wagner. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut secondly, \u2026 they are genuinely afraid of Trump’s wrath,\u201d Wagner added. \u201cEven if they’re leaving office, they don’t want the headache of him targeting them and their families. They don’t want to deal with the internet onslaught. They want to make sure that they have some kind of career after they leave the Senate. They want to make money, and to do that, they need to stay in the good graces of the GOP. And Trump, he is the king.\u201d<\/p>\n

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