WASHINGTON _ Republicans are moving quickly to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court because if they don't, they worry that disappointed GOP voters will stay home on Election Day after watching the party that controls the White House and Congress fail to accomplish one of its most important tasks.
An inability to fill the vacancy _ followed by last year's humiliating failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a promise that drove many of their 2016 campaigns _ could hurt Republicans in the midterms when they are already bracing for losses in the House and possibly the Senate.
"If Republicans bail out on this good man because of the smears and character assassination ... we deserve our fate," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
