Sen. Claire McCaskill, whose vote against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh played a major role in her defeat in the Missouri Senate race, is now criticizing how Democrats handled sexual assault accusations against the judge during his confirmation fight.
“I don’t think my vote [against Kavanaugh] hurt me as much as the spectacle that occurred,” McCaskill told NPR. “There were mistakes made by my party in terms of how that was handled. I don’t think that communication [from Christine Blasey Ford] to the judiciary committee should have been kept private as long as it was. The FBI deals with a lot of confidential information, and that would have absolved [judiciary committee ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein] of the very real perception that this was an 11th-hour attempt to gut a guy.”
