re: Why is 53 votes surging on betting markets?

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If Flake, Collins, and Murkowski are a yes, Manchin and Heidi will join them.

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There has to be some strategy on the red state Dem part.

If the final vote is going to be 51-49, then them defecting is purely symbolic at that point and changes nothing. The Dem leadership might give a few of the most vulnerable ones permission to vote in favor at that point.