The politics minute: GOP Senate nominee on Kavanaugh – 'Even if it’s true, does it disqualify him?' | US news I The Guardian
theguardian.com Ben Jacobs Cramer on Kavanaugh: ‘Even if it’s true, does it disqualify him?’ Congressman Kevin Cramer, the Republican nominee for Senate in North Dakota, is a top GOP recruit who is favored to beat incumbent Heidi Heitkamp. However, he questioned if the allegations then known about Brett Kavanaugh would disqualify him. “Even if it’s all true, does it disqualify him?” Cramer mused in a Monday interview. Does this hurt him? It certainly doesn’t help the gaffe-prone Cramer, but a lot depends on what happens in the next 48 hours or so. The Kavanaugh situation is not static and almost any political outcome is foreseeable. It does mean that he has left a pretty significant hostage to fortune if things go sour for Kavanaugh during Thursday’s hearing. Bredesen blames ‘both parties’ for Kavanaugh ‘circus’ Phil Bredesen, the former Democratic governor running for Tennessee’s open Senate, said in his debate Tuesday night: “What is going now