Posted on 09/27/2018 8:07:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Following an explosive and, at times, highly emotional day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, all eyes turned to several key swing-vote senators who remained outwardly undecided on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's fate late Thursday.
After the hearing, moderate Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, as well as Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., huddled to discuss the nomination, Fox News confirmed.
They talked for approximately 30 minutes before a GOP conference meeting Thursday evening ahead of Friday's planned Judiciary Committee vote on whether to recommend Kavanaugh's confirmation to the full Senate.
Meanwhile, in a major boost to Kavanaugh's bid, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who has frequently sparred with President Trump, announced he would support the nominee Thursday night.
“While both individuals provided compelling testimony, nothing that has been presented corroborates the allegation," Corker wrote in a statement, referring to Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing him of sexually assaulting her more than three decades ago. (Ford initially told The Washington Post she was attacked in the "mid-1980s," and claimed in July the date was in the "early 1980s," but she testified Thursday the episode occured sometime in 1982).
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told Fox News after the conference meeting that followed the hearing Thursday, "I think we’re going to go ahead. I worry about every one of these votes."
And Flake, who also sits on the Judiciary Committee, told Fox News: "It’s a tough one. She offered good testimony, and so did he."(continued)
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Anyone who votes against this man is disgusting slime from the bellies of writhing worms.
Anyone who votes against this man is nothing more than a creepy porn lawyer.
It’s a tough one? Only if you are an idiot I guess. Everyone I have talked to has renewed hope and confidence that he will be confirmed.
Redstate already said Manchin was a yes and the votes were already whipped with Dubya’s help.
GOP lawyer Mitchell told Republicans she wouldn’t bring charges against Kavanaugh or even request a search warrant if she were presented with case, per person briefed on meeting.
If manchin is a yes vote, why wouldn’t the others be a yes?
Uh, not tough.
no brainer
IF?
It’s not the slightest bit ‘tough.’
That’s a load of crap.
The democrats just want to torpedo a conservative justice and seem to need a fig leaf of political cover to do it.
Interesting tweet. This means her role wasn’t for us but it is to lobby senators on the fence using her reputation. She can assure them that there is nothing there as far as future charges.
Oh for Godsake, it isn’t “tough,” unless you’re a raging drama queen. This is still a matter of a girl at a high school party who might have been briefly fondled until some guy started jumping on the bed and put an end to this “crisis” the media has blown out of universal proportion.
The Republic being held hostage by high school messing around 36 years ago? That’s “tough” — to believe.
“OK, we’ll vote for Kavanaugh, but he has to pledge he will not vote against Roe vs. Wade, and he will approve of free abortions to anyone who wants one. Even people who will have babies only to sell them to the medical research and pharmaceutical companies.” “Do that for us and he’s in.”
Manchin goes before We the People (of WV) in November. He votes against Kavanaugh, he gets crucified.
Schumer recognized he will be confirmed now, so he’s giving a select few Dems the ok to vote “yes.”
It’s not difficult at all.
Flake, what an ass, she offered compelling testimony??? She offered nothing, not even her therapists notes.. Meanwhile Kavanaugh has the people who Ford said were at the party, swear under penalty of a felony, that they were not at the party... one her girlfriend, who not only said she wasn’t there, but never met Brett Kavanaugh!.. That’s compelling testimony Flake, you moron!
So we might not have the votes? Is that what I’m reading into it?
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