With the midterm election a month away, Trump seeks to keep Republican anger high

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-midterm-outlook-20181009-story.html




At the ceremony, Trump declared that he wanted to apologize to Kavanaugh “on behalf of our nation” for what he and his family had gone through.

“In our country a man or woman must be proved innocent unless or until proven guilty,” Trump said. “You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent."

Trump last week lashed out at Kavanaugh’s main accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, over her inability to recall some details of the evening more than three decades ago during which she says Kavanaugh assaulted her. Until Monday, however, the president had stopped short of calling the account fraudulent, sticking with a Republican strategy of trying to avoid overt attacks on Ford that could drive away women voters.

As Trump shifted to a harder-edged approach, so too did some Republican Senate candidates.

In Missouri, for example, state Atty. Gen. Josh Hawley, who has made his support for Kavanaugh a major part of his campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, said in a call with reporters that he agreed with Trump “that this process was a sham, and it was a disgrace.”

“It’s a very scary time for the rule of law,” Hawley said.

Over the weekend, Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, running against Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, criticized the #MeToo movement, labeling it in an interview with the New York Times as a “movement toward victimization.”

Those sorts of comments could increase the anger of women who feel that Republicans in the Kavanaugh fight belittled the experience of sexual assault victims, said Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg.

The GOP strategy involves “significant risk,” Greenberg said. “Anything that boosts women’s turnout just strikes me as really, really bad for them,” she added. “At the House level, it’s a huge problem for them.”

Republican strategists say they see less downside.

Democratic voters “are already at a 10” in intensity, said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. “They can’t go to 20. They can’t vote twice.”

In any case, Republicans may see the risk as justified if it prolongs the current trend of higher levels of interest in the election on the part of their voters.

“The Kavanaugh hearings polarized rather than shifted opinion,” said Charles Franklin, a professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee and a longtime polling expert. “In other words, both favorable and unfavorable views increased,” he wrote in an email.

“On balance, I think that helps Republicans, who had shown some signs of a weakening embrace of Trump,” he added.

[beachbum bob]

1. trump and GOP can not grow their voting base while the opposite is true for democrats everywhere

the more trump talks, tweets
the republicans play the victims

the more people come over to democrats, especially women, hispanics and now a growing number of men and white voters


so keep doing what you doing trump