The following article by Emily Crockett was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 31, 2018:
Red state Senate Democrats have every reason to vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court — and nothing to lose if they do.
According to recent polling, even vulnerable Senate Democrats in red states have absolutely nothing to lose by opposing Trump’s extreme Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Republicans are eager to push Kavanaugh’s nomination through the Senate before the November midterm elections. And some Democratic senators from red states — namely West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Indiana’s Joe Donnelly, and Missouri’s Claire McCaskill — have been noncommittal about opposing Kavanaugh.
But they really don’t need to be. Yes, their Republican opponents would probably try to use such a vote against them. But those attacks just aren’t likely to land with voters, and could even backfire.