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Originally Posted by New Era
Before we get too busy giving McCain a medal, lets all be reminded that he and Pence were locked in negotiations for quite some time before he cast his vote. McConnell was also confident he had the votes to get this back to the House, and that Pence was going to cast the tie breaker to make that happen. The look on McConnell and McCain's faces said it all. I don't think there was some master plan to this than McCain or anyone else cooked up.
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Plus unless he was conspiring with Collins and Murkowski, how could he definitively know he was going to be the 51st vote? They could easily have been bought off by McConnell, and if that happens the plan falls apart, and McCain almost certainly joins to make it 51-49 the other way. Plus there's always using the nuclear option later on to totally dismantle Obamacare rather than the skinny repeal. I'm glad McCain ####ed Trump over, but I seriously doubt he was running game here.