{"id":1002510,"date":"2018-10-03T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002510"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:55","slug":"reuters-ipsos-poll-opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reuters-ipsos-poll-opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters\/Ipsos poll: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation has increased every day since last week\u2019s hearing. Kavanaugh\u2019s approval rating is now underwater, with 41 percent opposed and only 33 percent in support of his confirmation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-poll\/opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1MD27V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a>: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By Lawrence Hurley and Chris Kahn<br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/>Opposition among Americans to Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court nominee, has increased in the wake of his testimony last week before a U.S. Senate committee in which he defiantly denied sexual misconduct allegations, Reuters\/Ipsos polling data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the latest seven-day average in a survey of U.S. adults, 41 percent of respondents opposed Kavanaugh, 33 percent supported the conservative federal appeals court judge and 26 percent said they did not know.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/>Opposition to Kavanaugh grew 4 percentage points after the Sept. 27 Judiciary Committee hearing in which university professor Christine Blasey Ford detailed a sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh and he denied it, portraying himself as the victim of a \u201cpolitical hit.\u201d<br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/>Opposition grew every day after the hearing in the poll, conducted between Sept. 25 and Oct. 1.<br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_-1194170233115572258gmail-kix-line-break\" \/>The increase in opposition to Kavanaugh, facing a confirmation vote in the Senate after being nominated by Trump for a lifetime position on the court, appears to be driven by those who previously did not have an opinion. The percentage of respondents with no opinion on Kavanaugh decreased by about 7 percentage points compared to a week before the hearing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-poll\/opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1MD27V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation has increased every day since last week\u2019s hearing. Kavanaugh\u2019s approval rating is now underwater, with 41 percent opposed and only 33 percent in support of his confirmation. Reuters\/Ipsos poll: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing By Lawrence Hurley and Chris KahnOpposition among Americans to Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-1002510","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>Reuters\/Ipsos poll: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing - 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\/reuters-ipsos-poll-opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing\/\" \/>\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=\"2018-10-03T16:41:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:15:55+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\/reuters-ipsos-poll-opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reuters-ipsos-poll-opposition-to-kavanaugh-grows-after-senate-hearing\/\",\"name\":\"Reuters\/Ipsos poll: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows after Senate hearing - 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