supreme court nominee. he has if anything gotten even more unpopular. he is polling in the negatives which is very unusual. you know, republicans are always going to be fired up about a supreme court justice. what's unusual and what we're seeing this time pretty consistently is that democrats are very fired up too. and it's much more about partisanship than it is about gender. if you look at democratic women, many of them feel very strongly. they identify with the accuser, and they are very interested in seeing what's going to happen with this, and they're very motived to stop kavanaugh's nomination. >> we should say there is one bright spot for republicans. north dakota. kevin cramer, the challenger there up 10 points which is a big, big lead over heidi heitkamp. that's further out than generally what severe seen in the polling. the majorities of voters in north dakota support kavanaugh. the question for you kavanaugh, how much does that one vote matter if you're heidi heitkamp or joe manchin or someone else like that? >> i think to the point made earlier, this is not a typical issue that has fired up