Kraninger may even face a tough time getting unified Republican support because she lacks a track record defending GOP views about the agency, according to some analysts. Some said the White House may eventually be forced to withdraw her nomination.
“It would be exactly like the Bush administration’s try at Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court and would end the same way,” said J.W. Verret, professor of banking law at Scalia Law School, referring to the former White House counsel whose nomination to the top court by George W. Bush in 2005 was pulled in the face of tepid support.
“Republican opposition is building,” said Verret, a colleague of passed-over candidate Zywicki. Verret said he’s leading a group of conservative thinkers which plans to tell the Senate Banking Committee in a letter that Kraninger is unqualified.
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