The Hill: Booker seizes on Kavanaugh confirmation fight - America Rising PAC

The Hill: Booker seizes on Kavanaugh confirmation fight

Booker will have an advantage over those other would-be candidates during the Kavanaugh hearings. He and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), another possible contender, both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who is also sometimes mentioned as a possible candidate for president, is another member of Judiciary. Harris elevated her name recognition in previous hearings with […]

July 30, 2018

Booker will have an advantage over those other would-be candidates during the Kavanaugh hearings. He and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), another possible contender, both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who is also sometimes mentioned as a possible candidate for president, is another member of Judiciary.

Harris elevated her name recognition in previous hearings with Trump appointees where she doggedly pressed for answers, most recently in questioning now-CIA Director Gina Haspel about the waterboarding.

Alexandra Smith, the executive director of the Republican superPAC America Rising, accused Booker of simply playing politics with the issue.

“This is pretty funny coming from a guy who said just yesterday that we needed to stop the partisan ‘bullshit,’” Smith said. “Cory said the president shouldn’t be allowed to name someone until the Mueller investigation was over. Now that the president has chosen an excellent jurist in Judge Kavanaugh, Cory has pivoted to arguments that are being scoffed at by fact checkers and liberals alike. Who’s playing politics now?”

This week, as Democrats prepared to fight the nomination, Booker appeared at a news conference with Senate colleagues—including Harris.

“I look forward to standing with my colleagues and all Americans in what will be the most important fight of our lifetimes,” he said. “There’ll be no greater.”

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