MS NOW⁠97%

‘Wouldn’t bet my house on it’: GOP senator doubts Blanche confirmation ⁠12%

By Erum Salam⁠87%

8/2/2026, 1:24:04 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Pessimism Bias as the most egregious example at 36.6% saturation with 169 hits. Analysis detected 538 faulty-reasoning hits from 462 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠12% (24,589 of 27,714 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 88.70% of the article peer group.

A key Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed skepticism Sunday that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will be confirmed to the position permanently. 
When speaking about the likelihood that Blanche could get confirmed, Sen. 
John Kennedy, R-La., said he isn’t sure a deal can be reached between President Donald Trump and hesitant GOP holdouts and that he “wouldn’t bet my house on it.” 
“And if I were betting your house, it would just be a maybe,” he said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday . 
Republican Sens. 
John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina will not support Blanche unless the Trump administration provides proof that it has formally killed the $1.8 billion payout fund for those who believe they are victims of Justice Department political persecution. 
The GOP holdouts have also demanded that the scope of an agreement between Trump and the IRS, brokered by the Department of Justice, to not investigate the president, his family or his businesses be significantly narrowed. 
The DOJ announced the fund in May, but dropped it nearly two weeks later amid bipartisan backlash . 
Blanche met with Cornyn behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss what it would take to earn his vote. 
Cornyn told MS NOW on Friday that his meeting with Blanche was “constructive,” but that they are “not there yet.” 
Sen. 
Susan Collins, R-Maine, told MS NOW last week that she also has reservations about the fund and Trump’s immunity from IRS audits. 
Kennedy did not rule out supporting a bill floated by Trump on Saturday to make the fund “the law of the land,” saying, “Well, I’d have to read it first.” 
Still, he said, any of the Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol and attacked police officers in 2021, should not be able to receive any compensation from such a fund. 
“I’d take them off the table,” Kennedy said. 
The uncertainty over Blanche’s nomination led the president on Thursday to suggest withdrawing his nomination until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office in January — a risky move if Democrats win control of Congress in the midterm elections. 
(Cornyn lost his GOP primary to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was endorsed by Trump, in May and Tillis — facing the prospect of a Trump-backed primary opponent — announced in April that he would not run for re-election .) 
The committee vote to advance Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor was originally set for Thursday, but has been postponed until Tuesday. 
But it’s unclear if the panel will meet amid continued uncertainty. 
The post ‘Wouldn’t bet my house on it’: GOP senator doubts Blanche confirmation appeared first on MS NOW . 
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462 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers36%attributed speech296writer words
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Susan Collins

100%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words13% of attributed speech55% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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