Republican swing votes express satisfaction with FBI report...
A pair of GOP
senators who had been on the fence about Brett Kavanaugh indicated Thursday
they were satisfied with the FBI’s updated background check on the Supreme
Court nominee — an apparent signal of support of his confirmation.
WEEKEND: Final vote...
WEEKEND: Final vote...
The battling commenced as the conservative jurist’s prospects for
winning Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court remained at the mercy of five
undeclared senators, with an initial, critical vote looming Friday. It followed
the FBI’s early-morning release of its investigation, which President Donald
Trump reluctantly ordered under pressure from a handful of senators.
Two scenarios...
Two scenarios...
The battling commenced as the conservative jurist’s prospects for
winning Senate confirmation to the Supreme Court remained at the mercy of five
undeclared senators, with an initial, critical vote looming Friday. It followed
the FBI’s early-morning release of its investigation, which President Donald
Trump reluctantly ordered under pressure from a handful of senators.
MAG: Delay HELPED...
MAG: Delay HELPED...
In
fact, the delay has actually helped clear Kavanaugh’s name.
FBI
investigation turns up no groundbreaking information?
Shortly
after 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 4, Democratic senators Dianne Feinstein and
Chuck Schumer spoke to the press following a confidential briefing about the
FBI's supplemental background check. While the senators were limited about what
they could say, Feinstein focused first on the fact that neither Kavanaugh nor
Ford, who testified publicly for hours last week, were interviewed by the FBI.
Republican enthusiasm surges...
Republican enthusiasm surges...
WASHINGTON: They are getting outraised. They are
struggling in suburbia. And their top guy is dividing America. But suddenly,
five weeks from Election Day, Republicans are seeing tangible evidence of a
spike in GOP enthusiasm that has eluded them all cycle.
“It’s got to be
Kavanaugh,” said Republican pollster Robert Blizzard, coming to the same
conclusion as GOP operatives nationwide: the Democrats’ efforts to block
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee are backfiring with Republicans
who were previously apathetic about the midterms but are now angry—and engaged.
Conversations with
pollsters, strategists and party officials reveal that Republican voters are
circling the wagons around Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee who
has been accused of sexual assault, allegations he strongly denies. And now,
there are concrete signs that the drama over his confirmation, complete with
emotional Senate hearings and an FBI supplemental investigation, is helping
Republicans close an enthusiasm gap with Democrats, which has been one of the
GOP’s biggest challenges of the last two years.
Brett
Kavanaugh is no longer a mere Supreme Court nominee. His name is now a
veritable conservative cause — one that has united the right for the first time
since the 2016 primary sent Republicans quarreling over Trump and Never Trump.
Whatever the outcome of the immediate contest, it’s increasingly
clear that Democrats and the media establishment made an enormous
miscalculation by waging total war against Kavanaugh and his family.