Tammy Baldwin's balancing act

On Monday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., declined to join her progressive peers in calling for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Thursday, she was markedly early to come out against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Baldwin, of course, is running for re-election in one of the purple states Trump managed to win, even if his margin of victory was less than one percentage point. Even in the six years since she was first elected to the Senate, Wisconsin has shifted rightward, with Gov. Scott Walker cruising to re-election, and Republicans controlling both chambers of the state legislature.