[Townhall] A holdover from last week, which is just too juicy to pass by without comment. This is intriguing stuff from Nevada's Dean Heller, the incumbent Senate Republican who Democrats are most bullish about replacing this November -- in a state Trump lost by nearly three points to Hillary Clinton last cycle. Many observers are framing this comment as a mere prediction, but is it? Here's what he told a legal group in Las Vegas on Friday:
"Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer," Heller predicted in Las Vegas last week, according to audio of an event he spoke at that was obtained by POLITICO. "Which I’m hoping will get our base a little motivated because right now they’re not very motivated. But I think a new Supreme Court justice will get them motivated."... "Mike Lee from Utah is probably on that short list of the next Supreme Court justice in our courts," Heller said during the Q-and-A session with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in Las Vegas Friday.
I can understand why people might view this as an expression of wishful thinking by a Senator who's desperate to dream up reasons why his party's base will be fired up to turn out after all, despite existing red flags. And those flags will get bigger and redder if this race goes the Dems' way tomorrow. The fact that it's close is significant unto itself:
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