Might say the timing is really inconvenient for donald trump, he should be out there campaigning to get the primary nominee vote from big states including california there. but there is some evidence amongst republican voters and people who would otherwise support donald trump that his legal troubles seem to do quite well, certainly as far as fundraising, they had a record number of the nation s record amount of donations on the back of his booking into the fulton county jail the other day. so obviously on the one hand, his laundry will be washed in public and the federal case in washington, dc. on the other hand, it might actually be something that works as a campaigning tool for him. that s quite interesting, isn t it? because obviously he ll be spending quite a bit of time and money, as well, defending himself in these cases. but none of that seems to be a hindrance to his campaign. that
Say that midterms are different from your presidential campaign. the mistake that democrats made in 2010 was not embracing the president. i just won this huge presidential. how can you not embrace me? barack obama was differential to the senate leaders in that race and for better or worse, kept a low profile and president trump is taking a different approach. when the numbers took an end of summer tank for the republicans, the question is, is that a break you can reverse or mitigate or will that cement? that s the big question. next for us here, brett kavanaugh supreme court nominee vote is on for this week even as he denies that he assault aid woman in high school.
Is he obviously a highly qualified nominee. been on the bench for over a decade. 300 opinions, thousands of pages of material. all the democrats should be meeting with him and seeing whether or not he is the kind of nominee vote for. shocking all have you is red state democrats willing even to have a conversation with him senate do its job and consider the nominee particularly considering the position. harris: is it ordinary or out of ordinary for cabinet to have 300 opinions for anybody to take a look at. very unusual. the last two supreme court nominees now justice gulch and judge kavanaugh have been on the bench quite a while. see a few nominees like that and short histories like chief justice roberts. it varies from here and there. and justice kagan was never on the bench. it varies but the great thing about this nominee is not only do you have 300 opinions, but have you tremendous amount of material from his time in the executive branch that has now been produced by the just
Politico has interesting reporting this morning saying that democrats are looking at talking about changing the strategy here to try you don t have much of a leg here, but to try to get the supreme court nominee vote to wait until after the midterms and the democrats are planning to move away from the talking points of this isn t fair, this should wait until after the midterms to focus on the real world impact that another conservative justice would mean on the court. especially when it comes to trying to sway some republican senators who are, say, pro-choice, like lisa murkowski or susan collins. as a democrat, do you think that s a better strategy? i think it is very, very important that people understand and we make the case to the american people of what is at stake in this supreme court nomination. everything that we consider important, whether it is protecting a woman s right to make decisions about her own health care, her own body, whether it is equality for
In the past been counted to give a republican nominee vote said he won t vote for judge gorsuch until the situation with judge gor land is taken care of. in other words, let s deal with garland first, which they re not going to. so i think a lot of it has to do with judge garland and the situation regarding president trump perhaps using litmus tests to pick a judge, using the federal society and the heritage foundation to come up with his lists, the comments that he made about some judges that ruled against him, all of this weighs against judge gorsuch, none of which is judge gorsuch s felt. in the end the democrats are being pressured by their interest groups to filibuster this. the question will become, i think we re down to 7 of the 10 democrats that are elected from trump majority states. three have already said they won t go for gorsuch. so there are 7 of those left. there is a few members of