CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Monday [9-24-18] urged voters and congressional Republicans gripped by Brett Kavanaugh’s dramatic Supreme Court fight to keep their eyes on the clash that will play out across battleground states in November. ‘REMEMBER THE MIDTERMS!’ Trump tweeted late Monday evening, following a day that saw the White House and Senate GOP leadership launch a renewed counteroffensive to confirm the president’s pick for the high court in the wake of a second sexual assault allegation leveled against Kavanaugh over the weekend…The possibility that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will fail to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination through the chamber has been a recent cause for alarm among endangered GOP lawmakers in this fall’s midterm elections. Those Republican fears have been exacerbated over the past week by an account from Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges Kavanaugh drunkenly attempted to assault her at a house party in Maryland more than 30 years ago, when Kavanaugh and Ford were both in high school. Another woman, Deborah Ramirez, came forward on Sunday [9-23-18], alleging in a report published by the New Yorker that Kavanaugh ‘thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent’ during an alcohol-fueled dormitory party when Kavanaugh and Ramirez were students at Yale University.”
–Quint Forgey, “Trump: ‘REMEMBER THE MIDTERMS!’,” Politico, September 24, 2018 11:34 pm