tonight that they couldn t be on the show, and they cited, quote, active efforts to reach the committee as their reason why dr. ford s lawyer couldn t appear with us live. so we infer from that that these negotiations were continuing into this evening, and for some reason, dr. ford s lawyers believed it might have impeded the prospects with them coming to some sort of negotiated conclusion for them to do any live interviews at this moment while these negotiations are under way. so here s basically the status as far as we know it. justice anthony kennedy announced his retirement months ago. the vacancy on the supreme court created by his retirement has been there for more than 70 days. the supreme court is not in session at this point. we know there is no special freshness date after which a supreme court vacancy goes bad and starts to stink up the fridge. we know that because republicans held open a vacancy on the supreme court for nearly a year
polling data on kavanaugh s nomination. the first time they polled on kavanaugh was in july, and in july kavanaugh had historically low levels of support in the nbc poll. the raw numbers were 32% of americans wanted to confirm him. 26% did not. it s sort of easiest just to look at the total the right column there, right? 32% in support. 26% not supporting him. that means he was plus 6 in terms of the difference between the number of people who wanted him on the court and the number of people who did not want him on the court. plus 6 is really, really low for a supreme court nominee that was july. then the next month in august, nbc did the exact same poll, and his support actually dropped a little bit. he went from plus 6 in july down to plus 4 in august. well, now nbc tonight has just unveiled new polling that s been in the field since this serious allegation was made against brett kavanaugh by dr. christine
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