But it's not difficult to see why people got the impression that Fischer was opposing Trump, since she tweeted that Pence should take over the nomination.
The governor's decision, however, did not fully resolve the dispute over the nomination calendar.
Not even, McConnell notes, during the ferocious fight over the nomination of now- Justice Clarence Thomas.
By the 1980s, party insiders had developed formal and informal mechanisms of reasserting influence over the nomination process.
A protracted standoff over the nomination is a distinct possibility, and would lead to paralysis in Brussels.
"This is a bad day for Europe," said the prime minister as he voiced bitterness over the nomination of Juncker.
In addition, Democrats are ready to fight over the nomination of Terrence Boyle, a protégé of Senator Jesse Helms.
That was shortly followed by a widely predicted, but no less humiliating, defeat over the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as the next President of the European Commission.
In 1989, the two icons of the Armed Services Committee brawled over the nomination of John G. Tower to lead the Pentagon.
Moreover, it has been paralysed for two years by a wrangle between the two main parties over the nomination of new tribunal members.
In overwhelmingly Democratic Brooklyn, the party's county chairman wields enormous clout over the nomination of judges and legislators and over the appointment of hundreds of patronage jobs.
