Pressure is on Murkowski over Kavanaugh vote
Liberal organizations hope they can urge Alaskans to flood Murkowski's office with calls and apply the same kind of pressure that led the state's senior senator to defy her party on votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act and confirm Education Secretary
So far, Murkowski has made no clear indication of how she plans to vote. In an earlier interview, she expressed annoyance with the push to get her to make an early decision, before she had a chance to review Kavanaugh's body of judicial work.
Murkowski met with Kavanaugh last week, but did not indicate any decision afterward. (
In a statement released after her meeting with Kavanaugh, Murkowski said the two discussed privacy, "executive power, vouchers, Indian law, and healthcare, including women's reproductive rights and protections for pre-existing conditions," as well as "unique legal issues that arise in
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But the anti-Kavanaugh advocates, who argue that he could help reverse the landmark abortion rights ruling in Roe v. Wade, undo protections of the Affordable Care Act and offer immunity to President
On Monday, they announced a new plan to focus on
The new push by several organizations https://whipthevote.org/ will encourage public pressure on
"In order to focus pressure on the true decision-makers in this fight," the groups need to put pressure on
Uniform support from
But the pressure on Murkowski and Collins won't get far unless they can be assured that all 47
"We believe that there's a path to defeating his nomination," Fallon said. "This is a winnable fight"
Meanwhile, the pressure continues for Murkowski. Last week, 30 Alaskans flew to
Fallon said by their count, advocates have made more than 1,000 calls to Murkowski's office since the nomination was announced. (That doesn't quite rise to the pressure campaigns last year over the education secretary and the Affordable Care Act repeal attempt, which ultimately resulted in a new phone system for Murkowski's overwhelmed office.)
Advertisements have also been up for about a month, Fallon said, both on television and a visual ad effort to "drive calls."
On Sunday, Kavanaugh opponents held rallies in
Meanwhile, pro-Kavanaugh conservative forces are applying pressure in
The
The ads are also running in
Americans for Prosperity, a
Earlier this month, Americans for Prosperity Alaska delivered a letter to Murkowski arguing that Kavanaugh's confirmation is "vital to Alaskans," according to the group's State Director
"We're glad you are deliberate in your research and dutiful in your constituent outreach, but when it comes down to it,
Kavanaugh's
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