Team Trump: If We Ditch Kavanaugh, We're Signing Our Own 'Death Warrant'

[DonViejo]

It’s Judge Kavanaugh or bust.

Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein

09.18.18 5:00 AM ET

For Donald Trump’s White House, Brett Kavanaugh is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own Supreme Court nomination. Instead, those close to the president view the next few days as a virtual X-ray on the backbone of their party and a litmus test for the future of Trump’s presidency.

Those are the stakes that Team Trump has embraced as they and Kavanaugh respond to allegations that the federal appeals court judge sexually assaulted a fellow high school student—allegations he strenuously denies.

There has been no talk within the ranks about pulling the nomination and going with an equally conservative—if not less controversial—pick, even if it would remove a major complication from the Republican agenda just 50 days before the midterm elections. To do so, aides and operatives insist, would be a disaster of much greater magnitude: inviting Democrats to launch more aggressive challenges to future judicial nominees and depressing the very base of conservative voters needed in November.

“A withdrawal would be disastrous for Trump,” one pro-Trump political operative who worked on the president’s 2016 campaign said. “You take away the whole ‘we’re sick of winning’ message. That’s a huge, marquee, top-line loss.”

Rarely have Supreme Court fights been defined in such crassly political terms. But such is the landscape following the public emergence Sunday of a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her more than 30 years ago. The allegation, from professor Christine Blasey Ford, has roiled the confirmation proceedings, with both Ford and Kavanaugh now set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee this coming Monday.

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. "We're sick of winning message"

Should change to

“We’re sick”

[Turbineguy]

2. This is the essence of trump

a fantasy inside a bubble.

[kacekwl]

3. I understand being on the Supreme Court

is a big deal for a judge but there must be something else in it for Cavanaugh to put himself thru this hellfire .He should walk away as one of the most unpopular choices ever.

[mythology]

5. The thing is, he may already be committed

If he gets on the court, how often do people bring up Thomas being a sexual harasser? On the other hand, being Borked is still a thing.

If he gets on the court most of this goes away with the regular business of the court.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. He's a ringer

What they're really talking about is that Kavanaugh is a ringer on the SCOTUS for Trump, he''' rule whichever way Trump tells him to on anything to do with Trump.