Opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is rising, particularly among Republican women, as he battles several allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a new poll.
Thirty-seven percent of registered voters oppose Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation, up from 33 percent last week, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll.
Kavanaugh still has support from most Republicans, but that number fell 11 points over the last week. Currently, 58 percent of Republicans want to confirm Kavanaugh, down from 69 percent last week.
That drop was caused in large part by an 18 point decline in support from Republican women, although nearly half still back confirming him. Forty-nine percent of Republican women support confirming Kavanaugh, while 15 percent are against confirming him.
The most recent poll was conducted from Sept. 20-23, and do not take into account allegations from Julie Swetnick, who alleged in a sworn affidavit that she saw Kavanaugh behave inappropriately toward women in high school at various parties, and claimed he spiked their drinks and touched them inappropriately without their consent.
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She also claimed Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge tried to drug girls so they could “then be ‘gang-raped’” by multiple boys. She alleges she was gang-raped at one of the parties where Kavanaugh was present.
Two other women have also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Kavanaugh forced himself on to her at a high school party in the 1980s, and Deborah Ramirez claims he exposed himself to her at a college party. Kavanaugh has denied all allegations against him.
The poll included a sample size of 1,966 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
