Sunday marks one year since Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Conservative pundits and Republican officials at the time warned of “Kavanaugh’s revenge” in the Midterms—but is that what happened?
” and predicted that Democrats who took a stand against the Supreme Court nominee would be punished at the polls or would underperform in the 2018 midterm elections as a result of their vote.
In the Senate, five Democratic incumbents who voted against the Kavanaugh nomination—Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester in Montana—held onto their seats in states that Trump had carried in 2016. A PerrryUndem poll conducted in April of this year found that “feeling unfavorably toward Justice Kavanaugh motivated people to vote for the Democratic candidate … above and beyond typical factors, such as party affiliation.”
And the result: record numbers of women were elected to Congress, flipping many seats from red to blue, accounting for 60 percent of Democratic gains in the House. As. wrote in the Winter 2019 issue, Democratic victories were “propelled by a gender gap as great as any of the past 20 years, led by women of color, young women and college-educated women.
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