There isn't a fucking Speaker. There are majority and minority leaders. President Pro Tempore which is Orrin Hatch. They each get one vote. Imagine that. Pence is a Const. mandated "officer" and settles the tie.
Actually, only 50 votes are required. Vice President Pence, who is the President of the Senate, would cast the tie-breaking vote. I think there is a lot of fear-mongering going on by the Democrats. We don't know how Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Gorsuch will vote on a challenge to Roe v. Wade. We also don't know how the new nominee to the court will vote. I'm sure precedence and "settled law" will be factors in the decision making process.
Trying to remember, didn't Obama nominate and the Senate appoint Kagan in a midterm election year, 2010?
This will be the moment of truth, if Trump picks a suitable conservative candidate and the morons in the senate who are getting voted out oppose him, then everyone will forever know they were actually liberals..... The complaint they always gave about Trump was that he was vulgar, and not pro life, and not pro family, and didnt represent the values of the party....... If Trump nominates someone who checks all the boxes, and these guys still disagree they just end up becoming even bigger pariahs....... this nominee will go through guaranteed before the election liberals going to get the biggest serving of shit in history, all because Harry Reid changed the rules. Its so perfect.
From Wiki: Susan Collins is a pro-choice Republican.[49] The Republican Majority for Choice, a pro-choice Republican PAC, supports Senator Collins.[50] On October 21, 2003, with Senate Democrats, Collins was one of the three Republican Senators to oppose the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. She did however join the majority of Republicans in voting for Laci and Conner's Law to increase penalties for killing the fetus while committing a violent crime against the mother. On March 30, 2017, Collins would again join Lisa Murkowski to break party lines on a vote; this time against a bill allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood. As in that case, Vice President Pence was forced to break a 50–50 tie in favor of the bill.[51] In 2018, Collins voted with the majority of Senate Democrats against a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.[52]
Just pointing out the left's hypocrisy when Schumer compares midterms to the Biden rule. Trump's gonna nominate, the Senate will confirm and the left's assault on democracy will go bye bye.