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Hello, listeners.

Welcome to Politico's Nurdcast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host. This week on our latest episode of the nerd cast, we're going to talk through the future of two

Republican senators after last week's vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

We talked a lot about those Red State Democrats up for re-election in 2018 and how the Supreme Court vote was affecting in a lot of cases

negatively their chances of re-election, but a couple of Republicans kind of caught the eye on this vote to confirm the

latest Supreme Court justice. Will Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski pay a political

price for opposing her party's president and voting against Kavanaugh, and will Maine Senator

Susan Collins face backlash against her vote in favor, potentially costing her

her Senate seat in the blue-leaning state in 2020.

We're going to check in on that.

Plus, we're going to check in on the midterms

that are coming up in a few weeks.

We're going to talk about the Republican House majority

and the continuing signs that we're seeing of increased peril

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