POLLS/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Americans are divided on whether or not senators should vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with 38% who say yes and 39% who say no, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released on Tuesday [9-11-18]. Contentious hearings did not move the needle in either direction for Kavanaugh. The new numbers are similar to CNN’s August poll, when 37% supported his confirmation and four in 10 did not. At that time, Kavanaugh had the lowest level of support for a Supreme Court nominee since Robert Bork, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate in 1987. Republicans offer the highest level of support for Kavanaugh, with three-quarters who say the Senate should vote to confirm his nomination, the same number as in August. Democrats are strongly against Kavanaugh’s nomination, with 63% who say the senate shouldn’t vote in favor, slightly down from 67%. Independents fall closer to Democrats on Kavanaugh, with 40% who don’t want senators to confirm him and a third who say they should. More Americans disapprove (45%) of the way Republicans and Democrats in the Senate handled the hearings than the 34% who approved of the way the hearings were handled.”
–Grace Sparks, “CNN Poll: Americans split on whether to confirm Kavanaugh,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 11, 2018 1:00 pm