Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein It may be that – again, and for now – Brett Kavanaugh has a path to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. But it wasn’t supposed to play out like this. Thursday was supposed to be the day Kavanaugh was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee – a marker that promised to rally GOP voters, and put red state Democrats in the awkward position of explaining why they might vote no. Now, that’s delayed, and also reversed. Democrats have become newly energized in the stop Kavanaugh effort – messaging that dovetails with the pro-women messaging they’ve long been pushing in the midterms. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., announced her opposition to Kavanaugh, despite the tough race she’s locked in. If the committee and then the Senate moves ahead on Kavanaugh without hearing from Christine Blasey Ford, it figures to be Republicans left trying to explain their votes. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Democrats have a point when they say there's a lot more Republican senators could do to drill down on the details of professor Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. That's just true. Republicans could call or even subpoena additional witnesses to testify, including the one Ford has named outright from the start. Ford has said explicitly that she remembers another man in the room besides Kavanaugh. Yes, that man has issued a statement saying he does not remember anything like she... Link to the full article to read more