Republicans insisted—and got a number of gullible media figures to believe—that confirming Brett Kavanaugh was a huge political win that would energize and unite the Republican base going into November’s elections. This was a highly dubious claim to begin with, and polling suggests it was more than dubious. It was more like total nonsense, actually.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds 46 percent of voters saying Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin “made the wrong decision” in confirming Kavanaugh, to just 40 percent who say it was the right decision. But wait! That’s not all!
And following the GOP-led effort to push through his nomination, enthusiasm among Democratic voters has surged. More than 3 in 4 Democrats (77 percent) say they are “very motivated” to turn out and vote in the midterms — more than the 68 percent of Republicans who say they’re “very motivated.”
These results are similar to a CNN poll that found 51 percent saying Kavanaugh should not have been confirmed, with a similar percent believing Kavanaugh’s accusers. The same poll pegged Democratic enthusiasm above Republican enthusiasm.
Republicans may have been able to win a couple hours of news cycle with their insistence that Kavanaugh was Great For Republicans, but it looks like “clap harder” is being revealed as a bit of stagecraft and not an organic upswelling of Republican pride.
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