Moments after Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins announced Friday afternoon that she’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, liberal journalists were despondent. But for others decided to face the music and CNN’s David Chalian did so by admitting that this was “perhaps” Donald Trump’s “best week as President.”

Chalian conceded that Trump has, “in a year-and-a-half's time as President of the United States, has succeeded in executing on one of the generational goals for conservatives, to reshape the Supreme Court in a more reliably conservative direction for decades to come.”

He explained that Trump’s decision to work with the Federalist Society and publish a list of jurists he’d choose from was successful in being “able to get” even those concerned about Trump the man “on board with this unifying and generational goal for the party, and Donald Trump has executed on it.”

“He is going to be a Supreme Court justice and this is going to go down, for all the things that will go down in history about Donald Trump's presidency, this will certainly be one of them. He's capping off, I would say, perhaps his best week as President,” he concluded.

Earlier in the day, Chalian appeared on At This Hour following Friday morning’s cloture vote to declare that “the ballgame’s over” regarding the chances of Democrats stopping Kavanaugh.

Chief political analyst Gloria Borger observed after Collins’s speech that “she’s now turned into Kavanaugh's greatest defender,” but fretted that Collins began her speech “by eviscerating Democratic outside groups as if there were no Republican outside groups on this, but that's another story.”

Without pointing out the role that CNN and the rest of the liberal media played in this, Borger also stated that “it's clear that the entrance of Avenatti into all of this really, really ticked her off, but she — you know, this is something that I think she's thought about a lot.”

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