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Home > Morning Joe > Who Will Survive in America: Trump and GOP Blast "Angry Mob" Democrats on Heels of Kavanaugh Confirmation, Expanding Effort to Energize Conservative Voters


	Podcast:		Morning Joe
	Episode:		Who Will Survive in America: Trump and GOP Blast "Angry Mob" Democrats on Heels of Kavanaugh Confirmation, Expanding Effort to Energize Conservative Voters
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		01:23:36
	Publish Date:		2018-10-09 07:41:29
	Description:		The White House, yesterday, hosted the official, public swearing-in of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with President Donald Trump presiding over the ceremony, and all current Supreme Court Justices in attendance. President Trump wasted little time in shifting his speech's cross-hair to the Democrats and the messy battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation. Trump, starting out the speech: "On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure ... You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent." The president, doubling-down on comments he made earlier in the afternoon, where he spoke to members of the press outside of the White House, alleging that the series of accusations brought against the "brilliant jurist" Brett Kavanaugh was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats, and the "Democrats' lawyers." The rhetoric adopted by the President is the latest example of a growing trend among GOP leadership, in which they attempt to paint the Democrats as the party of radical, angry protesters whose behavior closely resembles that of an "angry mob." Multiple Senators including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) invoked the use of such vernacular on a variety of Sunday talk shows and interviews on Capitol Hill in a thinly-veiled effort to rile-up Republican voters, pushing them to turn out for a number of contentious Senate races across the country. Majority Leader McConnell, while in his home-state of Kentucky, yesterday, doubled-down on this rhetoric once more: "We were literally under assault. These demonstrators, I'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens, but many of them were obviously trained to get in our faces..." New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters joins the panel to discuss his latest piece, out today, which shines a light on not only the Republican initiative to use the Kavanaugh confirmation as political fuel, but the Democrats' equally-as-charged-up plan, as well. This morning, with exactly four weeks until the midterm elections, we'll break down the electrifying gap in Presidential approval based on gender, the record number of women running for office, and how the latest Senate polling numbers may shift dramatically based upon either the Democrats' possible "unifying" message, or the effect of Republicans' intensifying, anti-left rhetoric. It's Tuesday, October 9th, 2018. Welcome to Morning Joe.
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