Shermichael Singleton: There’s Opportunity and Room for Tim Burchett to Move Over a ‘Yes’ Vote

PHILLIP: “That‘s Republican Tim Burchett, who is currently one of the holdouts who has not yet voted to advance Donald Trump‘s bill. Right now, it‘s all at risk. I mean, Tim Burchett went to the Hill or to — sorry, went to the White House. He got a lot of flattery from Trump. JD Vance tweeted something nice about him. Trump tweeted something nice about him. He was pretty upbeat, even though he said earlier tonight on CNN that he was still a ‘maybe.’ The honey is the flattery. But as Scott just pointed out, there‘s a little bit of an undercurrent of a threat here, that the stick will come eventually. So what‘s going to win out? Or is there another player here, maybe a Elon Musk who‘s got, you know, I don‘t know, many, many billions of dollars to spend?”
SINGLETON: “I don‘t think Elon would really matter much in Tim‘s district. He represents a very conservative district, voted overwhelmingly for the president. For the most part, his voting record is probably 95% with Donald Trump. I think there‘s an opportunity and room for him to move over. I don‘t know what it would take, but I could certainly see that happening. And maybe you get one of the other individuals out of the four to say, ‘Look, if you‘re in a vulnerable district, we understand that it‘s going to be challenging. The president, House Republicans will do whatever we can to support you financially, to make sure that you have the resources to run a competitive race against your Democratic opponent.’ I think that that‘s something that one of those members will likely be open to.”