Politico changed its tune this afternoon.

Republicans grow confident they can defeat witness vote FFS who's wagging this dog?

The two Republican senators were still undecided as of Thursday evening and met privately, according to a person familiar with the GOP conference's dynamics. Alexander will announce his position on Thursday night, a Republican aide said.

walp, does "Moscow Mitch" has debate/cloture on Friday calendar after all?

[Lamar] Alexander, joined by Republican Sens. Steve Daines of Montana and Ted Cruz of Texas, pressed House impeachment managers to explain how much bipartisanship factored into the Trump, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon impeachment proceedings.

This tid bit partly explain the first two bizarre Qs this evening. The rest of the article is kind of trashy. Politico picks for equivocating (R) are off, to judge by their Qs yesterday--although I paid no attention to Q&A today. Positions were pretty firm by close of business. I don't think Murkowski, Collins, or even King (I-Maine) will vote for Schumer 11 Amd. list unless radically altered.