Swordsmyth
10-05-2018, 05:24 PM
Two well-financed liberal groups that help elect Democratic candidates will not aid the campaigns of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin or Senate candidate Phil Bredesen because the two support Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.Super PACs MoveOn and Priorities USA, which raises money to support Democrats, on Friday said they would no longer support the two men, even as the party tries to leverage a potential wave of liberal voter anger to pick up the two additional Senate seats it would need to take a majority in that chamber.
The withdrawal of support is a sign of how charged the debate around Republican President Donald Trump's second nominee for a lifetime seat on the nation's top court has become.
Democrats have organized to oppose Kavanaugh, with opposition intensifying after Christine Blasey Ford last month accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers.
Bredesen, who polls indicate is locked in a dead heat for the Tennessee seat being vacated by a Republican, said in a statement Friday that he would have voted for Kavanaugh had he been in the Senate. Manchin, who is leading in his re-election bid to represent conservative-leaning West Virginia, said Friday that he will back Kavanaugh in the final senate confirmation vote expected on Saturday.
MoveOn said on Twitter it has canceled campaigning for Manchin and would also cancel more than $100,000 worth of online advertising it had planned to buy in support of Bredesen.
Priorities USA has not yet spent any money to support either candidate and will not do so following their support of Kavanaugh, spokesman Josh Schwerin said in a phone interview.
Manchin is expected to be the only Democrat to join Republicans in approving Kavanaugh.
Priorities USA and MoveOn are among the largest liberal "super political action committees" or Super PACs.
More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-liberal-group-withhold-aid-democrats-backing-kavanaugh-200326673.html
The withdrawal of support is a sign of how charged the debate around Republican President Donald Trump's second nominee for a lifetime seat on the nation's top court has become.
Democrats have organized to oppose Kavanaugh, with opposition intensifying after Christine Blasey Ford last month accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers.
Bredesen, who polls indicate is locked in a dead heat for the Tennessee seat being vacated by a Republican, said in a statement Friday that he would have voted for Kavanaugh had he been in the Senate. Manchin, who is leading in his re-election bid to represent conservative-leaning West Virginia, said Friday that he will back Kavanaugh in the final senate confirmation vote expected on Saturday.
MoveOn said on Twitter it has canceled campaigning for Manchin and would also cancel more than $100,000 worth of online advertising it had planned to buy in support of Bredesen.
Priorities USA has not yet spent any money to support either candidate and will not do so following their support of Kavanaugh, spokesman Josh Schwerin said in a phone interview.
Manchin is expected to be the only Democrat to join Republicans in approving Kavanaugh.
Priorities USA and MoveOn are among the largest liberal "super political action committees" or Super PACs.
More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-liberal-group-withhold-aid-democrats-backing-kavanaugh-200326673.html