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turbinetree

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Mon Jul 23, 2018, 09:38 PM Jul 2018

Manchin to sit down with Kavanaugh next week [View all]

Source: Politico

By BURGESS EVERETT 07/23/2018 05:33 PM EDT Updated 07/23/2018 05:48 PM EDT

Brett Kavanaugh will meet with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, signaling the Supreme Court nominee is beginning to woo Democrats in his confirmation bid.

Kavanaugh will meet with Manchin next Monday, according to a Manchin aide. Manchin is considered one of the Democrats most likely to back Kavanaugh, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Those three red-state Democrats voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.

Several other moderate Democrats are also angling to meet with Kavanaugh, even though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to meet with the nominee. A Heitkamp aide said she is working to set up a meeting with Kavanaugh but it hasn’t been finalized.

Typically rank and file members have waited for the party leader to secure a meeting with a Supreme Court nominee, though Schumer is already vowing to try to defeat Kavanaugh.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/manchin-kavanaugh-supreme-court-736246




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