{"id":1002421,"date":"2018-09-25T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002421"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:56","slug":"reporters-kavanaugh-nomination-is-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reporters-kavanaugh-nomination-is-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporters: \u2018Kavanaugh Nomination Is In Trouble\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite Senate Majority Leader McConnell\u2019s floor rant yesterday, it\u2019s clear that he knows the truth: Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s \u201csupport is shaken\u201d and his \u201cnomination is in trouble.\u201d Read these recent reports:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1044375229651451904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox\u2019s Chad Pergram<\/a>: \u201cKavanaugh nomination is in trouble. That&#8217;s why McConnell made blistering speech today. Baseball teams mail it in once they are out of pennant race. McConnell trying to get GOPers to run out out every ground ball in effort to salvage nomination. Kavanaugh lacks the votes right now\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonallendc\/status\/1044311417405526017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News\u2019 Jonathan Allen<\/a>: \u201cGood point. But withdrawal means they don&#8217;t have to vote. The problem for McConnell, Grassley and the White House is obvious: they don&#8217;t have 50 votes right now, and it may be well below 50.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenTDennis\/status\/1044426727441797120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg\u2019s Steven Dennis<\/a>: \u201cRule No. 1 of politics: When you have the votes, you vote. When you don\u2019t, you talk. And Kavanaugh and his allies are having to do a lot of talking right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/25\/kavanaugh-is-short-votes-but-fate-hinges-on-upcoming-testimony.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>: \u201cKavanaugh is short of votes, but fate hinges on upcoming testimony\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1044397958870061056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico\u2019s Burgess Everett<\/a>: \u201cKavanaugh\u2019s GOP support is shaken. And it\u2019s not just Corker, Flake, Collins and Murkowski: Both Capito, Rubio now say they need to see what happens on Thursday. \u2018Most of our members are going to wait \u2018til Thursday,\u2019 says Sen. Thune\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/09\/24\/kavanaugh-senate-republican-support-838392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cThough Kavanaugh currently lacks the votes to be confirmed, the GOP leader is signaling that he will hold the vote anyway to force all 100 senators to go on record and put maximum pressure on red state Democrats that the GOP is hoping to defeat this fall, Republican senators said.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Senate Majority Leader McConnell\u2019s floor rant yesterday, it\u2019s clear that he knows the truth: Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s \u201csupport is shaken\u201d and his \u201cnomination is in trouble.\u201d Read these recent reports: &nbsp; Fox\u2019s Chad Pergram: \u201cKavanaugh nomination is in trouble. That&#8217;s why McConnell made blistering speech today. Baseball teams mail it in once they are out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reporters: \u2018Kavanaugh Nomination Is In Trouble\u2019 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reporters-kavanaugh-nomination-is-in-trouble\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-25T13:32:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reporters-kavanaugh-nomination-is-in-trouble\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reporters-kavanaugh-nomination-is-in-trouble\/\",\"name\":\"Reporters: \u2018Kavanaugh Nomination Is In Trouble\u2019 - 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