Trump Bets Kavanaugh Fight Will Fire Up GOP Voters
- President drops pretense of sympathy for nominee’s accusers
- Risky wager as polls show sinking public support for Kavanaugh
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President Donald Trump is gambling that unflinching support for his imperiled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, will drive Republican voters to the polls in November and save his party’s control of Congress.
The president and his political advisers are so convinced that Kavanaugh represents an untapped cultural undercurrent that in Mississippi on Tuesday Trump finally dropped any pretense of sympathy for women who have accused the nominee of sexual misconduct. As a crowd at a political rally chanted “we want Kavanaugh,” Trump lit into the judge’s accusers, picking at inconsistencies and gaps in their allegations.