GOP senator: Kavanaugh ‘won’t feel like a winner’ after confirmation

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) lamented Friday that neither Brett Kavanaugh nor Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing the Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, would feel like “winners” following his bitter confirmation battle.

Kennedy told Fox News that neither side would feel vindicated after a final vote on Saturday afternoon, when Kavanaugh is expected to be confirmed to the high court following weeks of controversy over the sexual assault allegations.

“There are no winners,” Kennedy said Friday. “I’ll bet you this time…tomorrow night Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed and I’m very pleased. [But] he won’t feel like a winner.”{mosads}

Kennedy, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing Kavanaugh’s nomination, blamed the panel’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), for keeping Ford’s allegations under wraps for months.

Feinstein has maintained that she did so at Ford’s request for anonymity, but Republicans have for weeks blasted the decision, saying the allegations should have been brought forward sooner.

“I bet Dr. Ford and her family will not feel like a winner. And it all could have been avoided, if Sen. Feinstein had just turned over Dr. Ford’s anonymous note…to us,” Kennedy asserted on Fox. “We could have investigated without the intergalactic freak show.”

.@SenJohnKennedy: There are no winners. I’ll bet you this time tomorrow night Judge Kavanaugh…he won’t feel like a winner. I bet Dr. Ford and her family will not feel like a winner and it all could have been avoided. #TheStory https://t.co/wUNn5lD372 pic.twitter.com/TzNvNZcl94

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 5, 2018

Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have all come out in support of Kavanaugh’s nomination, clinching the necessary number of votes for him to be confirmed.

Ford has alleged along with two other women that Kavanaugh engaged in sexual misconduct during his high school and college years in the 1980s amid periods of heavy drinking, allegations that Kavanaugh has fiercely denied.

Kennedy attacked Democrats on Thursday over the allegations facing Kavanaugh after the publication of the FBI’s supplemental background investigation, telling reporters that some parts of the report “make me angry” without explaining further.

“Let me say that again: I really wish you could read this report. There are things in here that really make me angry,” he said after viewing the report.

“Anybody who thinks politics isn’t involved in this ought to put down the bong.”