Article snippet: If Donald Trump. With four “Make America Great Again” rallies this week alone, Trump will be shaping the direction of his party and its candidates more explicitly than usual in the days to come. And with Kavanaugh now seated on the Supreme Court, Trump is likely to become a larger piece of the midterm story. The battle that concluded with a Trump victory photo-op Monday night brought Republican Party messaging and organizing even closer to the president, who wound up finding a comfort zone in a divisive and ugly fight. Trump is describing downright scary stakes -- Republicans vs. a “mob” of Democrats, including some he’s calling “evil.” He went from finding Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony “credible” to calling the allegations against Kavanaugh “a hoax” and “all made up.” “Kavanaugh” is now a MAGA-ready chant, and GOP Senate candidates are going on offense against Democrats’ efforts to block him -- even drumming up the far-fetched possibility of impeachment. Trump predicted that as part of the fallout, “a lot of Democrats are going to vote Republican.” That’s not the ballgame, as Republican operatives and the White House political operation know. This will be a base-motivating election, and Trump and his party are more comfortable than they’ve been in some time -- and also more closely aligned. Just 28 days out from the midterm election, there's a clear sense from Democrats that the political aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the S... Link to the full article to read more