Cory Booker Admits Something Shocking About the Accusations Against Kavanaugh

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In a bizarre statement Tuesday, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) appeared to state that it didn’t really matter to Democrats if Brett Kavanaugh were guilty or innocent. . .

Booker said in a statement to the media Tuesday that it didn’t matter whether Kavanaugh was guilty or innocent because he has shown himself to not be worthy of the “sacred institution” of the Supreme Court.

“So my hope that beyond the vicious partisan rancor that is going on,” Booker said, “beyond the accusations, we don’t lose sight of what this moral moment is about in this country and ultimately ask ourselves the question is this the right person to sit on the highest court in the land for a lifetime appointment.”

“When their credibility has been challenged by intimates, people who knew the candidate well as a classmate,” he continued. “When his temperament has been revealed in an emotional moment where he used language that frankly shocked a lot of us.”

Booker referred to the statement Kavanaugh made in defense of his character where he said that the false allegations were revenge for his role in the Ken Starr probe that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

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Stunning New Poll Reveals Drastic Turn in Midterm Elections

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By The Blaze. Democrats got a gut check with a new poll from Quinnipiac showing that their lead in the generic ballot had been sliced by half for the midterm elections. . .

The Quinnipiac University poll found that Democrats had a generic ballot lead of 7 points, with 49 percent of Americans saying they’d vote for a Democrat while 42 percent said they’d vote for a Republican.

This lead represents half of the advantage the Democrats had in the same poll from September, when 52 percent of Americans said they’d vote for Democrats, while only 38 percent said they supported Republicans.

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We’re Running Thousands of Midterm Simulations Until Election Day

By TIME. After a humbling round of misfires in 2016, political forecasters now face an even more daunting challenge: Predicting the results of 470 simultaneous Congressional elections at a time when yesterday’s rules seem to no longer apply.

Not to be discouraged, most election handicappers predict a surge in Democratic turnout that may well flip the House of Representatives to Democratic control. That said, Congressional election outlooks have a sizable margin of error given the sheer number of races, less comprehensive polling and fluctuating turnout rates.

To get a handle on how likely Republicans are to lose either the House or the Senate, TIME is using the forecasts of three major political seers to create 10,000 electoral simulations every day, which you can activate below. In the electoral maps below, you can select predictions by Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, or a combination of all three to see, based on the confidence level of each race’s outlook, how likely it is for each scenario to play out in November. (Read more from “We’re Running Thousands of Midterm Simulations Until Election Day” HERE)

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Packages Laced With Ricin Sent to the Pentagon, Letter for Mattis

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By Townhall. We have reports that two packages laced with ricin were sent to the Pentagon. They did not get inside the building, however, as the package facility is in a separate building. The Washington Exmainer reports that the FBI is taking lead on the investigation.

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Suspected Ricin Sent to Pentagon, Suspicious Letters to Trump, Ted Cruz Office

By NBC News. A flurry of suspicious envelopes targeting high-profile figures — including President Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Sen. Ted Cruz — were received in the past two days.

The Secret Service said in a Tuesday evening statement that it intercepted a “suspicious envelope” addressed to the president.

The mail was intercepted at a location outside of the White House. The Secret Service provided no other details about the envelope.

“We can confirm that we are working jointly with our law enforcement partners to fully investigate this matter,” it said in a statement. “Further, all threats directed towards the President, or any Secret Service protectee, are treated seriously and fully investigated.”

Earlier Tuesday, two people were hospitalized in Houston after a “white powdery substance” was found in a letter addressed to the campaign headquarters of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Houston, law-enforcement sources said. (Read more from “Suspected Ricin Sent to Pentagon, Suspicious Letters to Trump, Ted Cruz Office” HERE)

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McConnell Triples Down: We’re Voting This Week on Judge Kavanaugh

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By Townhall. Speaking during a press conference Tuesday afternoon on Capitol Hill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tripled down on his promise to hold a vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week.

“We’ll get an FBI report soon. It will be made available to each Senator. All the Senators will be able to look at it,” McConnell said. “We’ll be voting this week.”

During a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell berated Democrats for continued their deployment of delay tactics against Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination.

“It started with straightforward political maneuvering. None of it worked, of course. But — whatever excuses they could find to delay, delay, delay. First, back in June, Democrats tried to argue the Senate shouldn’t confirm a Supreme Court justice in any even-numbered year. Then they were reminded that Justices Kagan, Breyer, and Souter were all confirmed during midterm election years. And that argument evaporated,” McConnell said. (Read more from “McConnell Triples Down: We’re Voting This Week on Judge Kavanaugh” HERE)

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Mitch McConnell Says FBI’s Kavanaugh Report Won’t Be Made Public

By Huffington Post. The report from the FBI’s background investigation into the sexual assault allegations leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be shown only to members of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday.

“We will get an FBI report soon. It will be made available to each senator and only senators will be allowed to look at it. That’s the way these reports are always handled,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill, noting that background investigations are typically added to a nominee’s file for senators to access. . .

“There’s a growing consensus in the Senate that when the FBI’s investigation is complete, the finding should be released publicly with any personal information redacted,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. (Read more from “Mitch McConnell Says FBI’s Kavanaugh Report Won’t Be Made Public” HERE)

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Julie Swetnik’s Former Fling: She Enjoyed Sex With Multiple Men at Once and Isn’t Telling the Truth About Brett Kavanaugh

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By Townhall. Former Democratic candidate for Congress and weatherman for WJLA Channel 7 in Washington D.C. Dennis Ketterer has sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Julie Swetnik. Swetnik has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

In the letter, which was submitted as a statement to the Committee under penalty of perjury, Ketterer says Swetnik told him in the 1990s that she enjoyed sex with multiple men at the same time. Ketterer, who doesn’t drink alcohol, says he met Swetnik at a bar on Wisconsin Circle. He was there to buy a soda after a goodbye party for a co-worker in 1993 and was having marital issues at the time. Swetnik approached him, they developed a conversation and ultimately a relationship.

“During a conversation about our sexual preferences, things got derailed when Julie told me that she liked to have sex with more than one guy at a time. In fact sometimes with several at one time. She wanted to know if that would be ok in our relationship,” the letter states. “I asked her if this was just a fantasy of hers. She responded that she first tried sex with multiple guys while in high school and still liked it from time-to-time. She brought it up because she wanted to know if I would be interested in that.”

“Julie never said anything about being sexually assaulted, raped, gang-raped or having sex against her will. She never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh in any capacity,” he continued. . .

“I know what it’s like to be sexually assaulted and not be believed. I was 9 years old when it happened at the hands of my grandfather’s best friend. I also know what it’s like to be accused of something significant that I didn’t do and not be believed,” he wrote. (Read more from “Julie Swetnik’s Former Fling: She Enjoyed Sex With Multiple Men at Once and Isn’t Telling the Truth About Brett Kavanaugh” HERE)

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Avenatti Submits Declaration From a Witness That ‘Confirms Number’ of Julie Swetnick’s Claims

By Townhall. Early Tuesday evening attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents Julie Swetnick, tweeted a letter from a witness who declared, under penalty of perjury, that Brett Kavanaugh “drank excessively,” was “overly aggressive and verbally abusive towards girls” and he would “spike punch” at parties as a means of “making girls more likely to engage in sexual acts and less likely to say ‘no.'”

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Anchor Makes Stunning Admissions About Interview With Kavanaugh Accuser

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MSNBC anchor Kate Snow admitted that NBC News could not corroborate the claims of a woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of heinous charges, but they were going to air her interview anyway.

Snow aired an exclusive interview with Julie Swetnick, who was represented by Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, and made serious allegations against Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. . .

“There are things that she told us on camera that differ from her written statement last week,” Snow continued.

Swetnick said in the interview that she could not be certain if Kavanaugh was present when she says she was gang raped. She also could not definitively state that she saw him and his friend “spike” punch bowls at parties to get girls surreptitiously inebriated.

“We’ve been trying independently to reach out to anyone who remembers attending parties with Julie Swetnick and Brett Kavanaugh,” she added, “and we’ve been asking her attorney for names. So far, we’ve not found anyone who remembers that.” (Read more from “Anchor Makes Stunning Admissions About Interview With Kavanaugh Accuser” HERE)

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Trump Signs ‘Minibus’-CR That Funds Planned Parenthood and Aborted-Baby-Parts Research

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President Donald Trump today signed a bill the Republican Congress is describing as a combined “minibus” and “continuing resolution” that funds the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for fiscal year 2019 and funds through Dec. 7 all other government agencies that do not have their own appropriations bills approved by this Sunday.

The law Trump signed also permits funding through fiscal 2019 of Planned Parenthood and federal research that uses tissue taken from aborted babies. . .

The Senate approved the combined “minibus” and “continuing resolution” on Sept. 18 by a vote of 93 to 7. The seven senators who voted against it included Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and six Republicans. The Republicans included Sen. Pat Toomey (R.-Pa.), Sen. Ben Sasse (R.-Neb.), Sen. David Perdue (R.-Ga.), Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.), Sen. Mike Lee (R.-Utah) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R.-Ariz.).

The House approved the bill on Wednesday evening by a vote of 361 to 61. More House Democrats voted for it (185) than House Republicans (176). Only 5 House Democrats joined the 56 House Republicans who voted against it. . .

This bill (H.R. 6157) that funds four major federal departments—Defense, Labor, HHS and Education—for a full fiscal year and includes a CR to fund multiple other departments through Dec. 7 started out as a stand-alone Defense bill in the House of Representatives. The House passed that initial version of H.R. 6157 by a vote of 359 to 49—with only 3 Republicans voting against it (and 46 Democrats). (Read more from “Trump Signs ‘Minibus’-CR That Funds Planned Parenthood and Aborted-Baby-Parts Research” HERE)

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Obama Releases List of Latest Endorsements — With Some Conspicuous Omissions

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Former President Barack Obama released another list of midterm endorsements Monday, this one more than three times the size of the list he released over the summer — but Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) was noticeably absent.

Ellison, who is running for Minnesota Attorney General, is currently embroiled in a domestic abuse scandal stemming from allegations made by an ex-girlfriend, which Ellison denies and which a Democratic lawyer said have not been substantiated.

“Today, I’m proud to endorse even more Democratic candidates who aren’t just running against something, but for something—to expand opportunity for all of us and to restore dignity, honor, and compassion to public service,” a post on Obama’s Twitter account read.

While the domestic abuse allegations on their own might have been enough to get Obama to stay away from endorsing Ellison, it could also be Ellison’s 2017 criticism of Obama’s party leadership that led to the snub.

Ellison put blame on Obama for the Democratic Party’s losses during the 2016 election, saying Obama was “great at getting himself elected” but that he didn’t campaign enough or work with Congress enough while in office. (Read more from “Obama Releases List of Latest Endorsements — With Some Conspicuous Omissions” HERE)

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Sex-Crimes Prosecutor Details Massive Inconsistencies in Kavanaugh Accuser’s Story

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By The Federalist. The sex crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford about her allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has released a memo detailing inconsistencies in Ford’s testimony.

“I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the Committee,” Rachel Mitchell wrote in a five-page-long memo obtained by The Washington Post. “A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that.”

Ford named a friend, Leland Ingham Keyser, as at the drunken high school party where Ford says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Keyser has repeatedly said that she does not remember any such event and has refused to corroborate Ford’s story. . .

Initially, Ford kept altering the timeline about when the alleged attack took place, then suddenly narrowed it down to the summer of 1982 just before her testimony without explaining how she was able to do that. . .

Leading up to the hearing, Ford told The Post she had therapy notes from a marriage counseling session in 2012 in which she outlined the alleged assault. Post reporter Emma Brown noted that Ford did not name Kavanaugh as the assailant in these notes. The only time Ford has named Kavanaugh as the assailant on the record was after he was nominated as a Supreme Court justice. (Read more from “Sex-Crimes Prosecutor Details Massive Inconsistencies in Kavanaugh Accuser’s Story” HERE)

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The Prosecutor Who Questioned Christine Blasey Ford in Senate Hearing Says Her Case Against Kavanaugh Is Weak

By Business Insider. The prosecutor who questioned professor Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over sexual assault allegations wrote in a memo that Ford’s case against Kavanaugh is weak.

The Washington Post obtained the five-page memo prosecutor Rachel Mitchell sent to Senate Republicans Sunday night that said key inconsistencies in Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee rendered the case too weak to pursue.

“A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that,” Mitchell wrote. “Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them.”

Mitchell pointed out in the memo that Ford wasn’t able to recall the date and never identified Kavanaugh by name in the evidence provided to the committee, which included notes from therapy sessions in 2012 and 2013. . .

Describing the allegations she first made known in a letter to members of the Judiciary Committee, Ford said Kavanaugh and a friend locked her in an upstairs bedroom at a party, pinned her to a bed, groped her, and held his hand over her mouth as she screamed. Mitchell wrote in the memo Ford’s failure to recall other key details about the incident’s date and location “raises significant questions” about her account. (Read more from “The Prosecutor Who Questioned Christine Blasey Ford in Senate Hearing Says Her Case Against Kavanaugh Is Weak” HERE)

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Kavanaugh Critics: FBI Needs to Investigate What ‘Boofing’ Means

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With the unsubstantiated allegations against Brett Kavanaugh continuing to pile up, some of his critics have zeroed in on a new gotcha on the SCOTUS nominee: the meaning of the words “boof” and “Devil’s Triangle” in his high school yearbook.

Even though the words “boof” and “Devil’s Triangle” may very well have had an entirely different meaning to a bunch of D.C. suburban teens in the early-’80s, Kavanaugh’s critics are promoting the narrative on social media that Kavanaugh lied under oath regarding the meaning of those terms. According to these critics, the “Devil’s Triangle” is not a drinking game, as Kavanaugh asserted during his testimony, but rather sex acts involving two guys and one girl; “Boof” refers to, well, something very NC-17; “Renate Alumnus” really was code for “I tapped that.”

Setting aside the problematic notion of combing through a high school yearbook and decoding inside jokes, for Kavanaugh to openly brag about it suggests a personality that was not only flippant but gleefully pernicious. Remember, many of those spreading this theory are the same people who have readily accepted that Kavanaugh was running a “gang rape” ring at age 15.

Politico is lending their weight to promoting the theory. In a piece published by Politico, Brian Fallon and Chris Kang, co-founders of a progressive group opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination, call for the FBI to fully probe the meaning of a 17-year-old teen’s reference to “boofing.”

The article, of course, neglects to mention the fact that over 60 women and several of Kavanaugh’s classmates have openly rejected the portrait that Ford and Ramirez have painted of him, both of whom have failed to identify a single witness that can corroborate their accounts. For his critics, their uncorroborated accounts are more truthful than Kavanaugh’s assertion that “boofing” referred to flatulence and “Devil’s Triangle” was a drinking game. (Read more from “Kavanaugh Critics: FBI Needs to Investigate What ‘Boofing’ Means” HERE)

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