Tribalism fuels GOP embrace of Kavanaugh
By James Hohmann
September 27 at 9:08 AM
With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve
THE BIG IDEA: A lot has been written about the gap in support for Brett Kavanaugh between men and women, but the partisan divide is much starker than the gender divide. Against the backdrop of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, this Supreme Court confirmation fight has become the most vivid illustration to date of the escalation in tribalism during the Trump era.
An NPR-PBS-Marist poll published yesterday asked people whether President Trump’s nominee or Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth about what happened at a 1980s party when both were teenagers:
Among Republicans, 59 percent said Kavanaugh, and 5 percent said Ford.
Among Democrats, 56 percent said Ford, and 8 percent said Kavanaugh.
“Thirty-two percent of men believe Kavanaugh and 28 percent believe Ford. Thirty-five percent of women believe Ford and 20 percent believe Kavanaugh. That's a 19-point gender gap,” NPR’s Domenico Montanaro reports. “Republican men overwhelmingly believe Kavanaugh (61 percent to 5 percent) and Democratic women believe Ford (56 percent to 4 percent). Democratic men believe Ford by a 54 percent to 16 percent margin, and Republican women believe Kavanaugh by a 57 percent to 6 percent margin. A plurality of independent women believe Ford (38 percent to 16 percent).”
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