McConnell slams anti-Kavanaugh protests, 'intimidation tactics'
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday slammed protestors who are increasingly confronting GOP senators over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, warning it won't prevent the Senate from voting.
"If facts and evidence couldn't get the job done, then intimidation tactics and bullying would have to do. ... The far left tried to bully and intimidate members of this body, Republican United States senators," McConnell said from the Senate floor.
McConnell noted in an apparent reference to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) that one senator and their family "were effectively run out of a restaurant in recent days by these people."
"Another reported having protestors physically block his car door. And some have seen organized far-left protestors camp out at their homes," McConnell continued.
Cruz and his wife, Heidi, were confronted by anti-Kavanaugh protestors at a D.C. restaurant. They later returned to finish their meal. Protestors on Capitol Hill have also tailed senators coming in and out of unrelated committee hearings in public Senate office buildings this week.
McConnell himself and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) were both confronted by women who identified themselves as survivors of sexual assault associated with an advocacy group opposed to Kavanaugh's nomination at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Monday.
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Well if you weren't such a dick who ignores people I don't think as many would go to these ends.
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