It can only hurt them at this point.

So they're gonna hold hearings and argue out which of them is lying, in a committee hearing? And the ENTIRE R side of the aisle (everyone who will be trying to impugn her side of the story) is an old white man?

I don't see how that can be anything but accelerant for the blue wave.

And then, he'll almost certainly lose the final vote (the wobbly Dems now have a perfect justification for voting no, as do Collins, Murkowski, even Flake and Cornyn). So regardless, they'll be putting up someone new anyway. They could skip the ugly step (again, with an easy excuse for the anti-abortion nuts) and actually have a fresh face to promise before the midterms.

Trump gets a lot of unexpected advantage out of his "never back down under any fucking circumstances" strategy. But this looks like it's stacking up to be a spectacular failure.