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A new CBS News poll found Americans are divided and somewhat more opposed to Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination than in favor of it after hearing from both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, but strong partisanship increasingly defines the public’s views.
According to the poll, 35% of Americans want Kavanaugh confirmed, versus 32% last week.
The poll found Republicans have grown more in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation compared to last week, and nearly half say they’d be angry if he isn’t eventually confirmed. Democrats are increasingly opposed after the hearings, with nearly half expressing anger at the idea of Kavanaugh eventually being seated on the court. The CBS News/YouGov Poll was conducted using a nationally representative sample of 2,485 adults between September 28-30.
In a new CBS News poll, 35 percent of Americans want the Senate to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice, while 37 percent oppose it https://t.co/W1ETflUMTf pic.twitter.com/2jpxnLDYXq
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 1, 2018
Comey on Kavanaugh probe: Former FBI Director James Comey says it’s “idiotic” to put a clock on the bureau’s investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. But, he writes in a New York Times op-ed, “it is better to give professionals seven days to find facts than have no professional investigation at all.” Comey says President Donald Trump — who fired him — “will condemn the bureau for being a corrupt nest of Clinton-lovers if they turn up bad facts.” And, writes Comey, “maybe Democrats will similarly condemn agents as Trumpists if they don’t.”
Court starts new term: The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with eight justices rather than the usual nine. Axios writes there are 43 pending cases, with the first case up for argument Monday a property-rights case about protected habitat for an endangered frog. The case pits environmentalists against property-rights advocates.
Warren vows ‘hard look’: Sen. Elizabeth Warren pledged to “take a hard look” at a presidential run in 2020 after the midterm elections are over. “It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top,” the Democratic senator told a town hall crowd in Holyoke, Mass. “So here’s what I promise: After November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president.” As CNN writes, Warren had previously downplayed expectations of a run saying she is focused on her work in the Senate.
Mexican negotiator on revised Nafta: Jesus Seade, the top North American Free Trade Agreement negotiator for Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, wrote on Twitter that the revised Nafta agreement “will give certainty and stability to Mexico’s trade with its partners in North America.” U.S. stock futures YMZ8, +0.90% were solidly higher on Monday after a last-minute deal to revise Nafta.
Celebramos el acuerdo trilateral. Se cierra la puerta a la fragmentación comercial de la región. TLCAN 2 dará certidumbre y estabilidad al comercio de México con sus socios en Norteamérica. Gran satisfacción haber representado a @lopezobrador en este proceso. Enhorabuena a todos.
— Jesús Seade (@JesusSeade) October 1, 2018
