DEMS/ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [9-6-18] praised Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s progress toward winning confirmation to the Supreme Court but decried the ‘anger and the meanness on the other side,’ blasting Democrats’ behavior toward his nominee as ‘sick.’ During a campaign rally in Montana, Trump sought to elevate Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a political litmus test for voters as he embraced a Republican challenger to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, a top GOP target in the fall elections. Trump also raised the specter of impeachment if Democrats win control of Congress. As he stood alongside Tester’s opponent, state Auditor Matt Rosendale, Trump said Tester ‘will never drain the swamp because he happens to live in the swamp.’ Seeking to portray the Montana farmer as a tool of liberal Democrats, Trump said, ‘Jon Tester talks like he’s from Montana, but he votes like he’s Nancy Pelosi’ — a reference to the House minority leader, a frequent Trump target. Trump said many of the Senate Democrats whom Tester had helped elect ‘are attacking Judge Kavanaugh and looking like fools.’ He said Kavanaugh — who is strongly opposed by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee — deserved ‘overwhelming bipartisan support.'”
–The Associated Press, “At Rally, Trump Lauds Kavanaugh Progress, Decries ‘Meanness’,” The New York Times online, September 6, 2018