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WASHINGTON — With the U.S. Senate set to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination Friday and Saturday, it’s still unclear whether he’ll be confirmed or defeated, although the expectation is that he’ll survive along (mostly) party lines. But one thing’s for sure: The votes will reverberate beyond this election season. Four GOP senators up for re-election in 2020 hail from states that will be top battlegrounds in the next presidential election — Sens. Gardner has been supportive of Judge Kavanaugh throughout the nomination. Nothing in the report changed his mind and he remains supportive of Judge Kavanaughs nomination.” Colorado, of course, is a state that Hillary Clinton won by 5 points in 2016. After that vote, which will last about 30 minutes, there will be up to 30 hours of debate on the nomination – equally divided between Republicans and Democrats – after which they will hold the final vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination. Kavanaugh in the Wall Street Journal: “I was very emotional last Thursday" Out of everything that happened during last Thursday’s Kavanaugh-Ford testimony on Capitol Hill, maybe the most striking was Kavanaugh’s partisan tone in his opening remarks. We said, unequivocally, that each of us, on numerous occasions, had seen Brett stumbling drunk to the point that it would be impossible for him to state with any degree of certainty that he remembered everything that he did when drunk.” But also writing in the Washington Post, Mark A. Perry – a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who clerked with Kavanaugh at the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1990s – stands up for the nominee. “While I didn’t know Kavanaugh in high school, college or law school, I have known him for virtually all of his professional life — his time as a lawyer and judge, which led to his nomination to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. These state elections are the most under-reported story in politics, with control of chambers likely tipping from Republicans to Democrats.”

Grammy-award winning rapper Big Daddy Kane and Washington Correspondent for the Daily Beast, Eleanor Clift, join “The Beat” for fallback Friday. With Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh likely to be confirmed, Big Daddy Kane tells Ted Cruz to fall…

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia will vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…

Watch LIVE on October 6th at 12pm EST: Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the highest court in the land comes to a vote on the Senate floor after two historic hearings and weeks of controversy surrounding the Judge. FOX News Channel…

Senator Susan Collins, in a lengthy Senate floor speech, said she would vote for Brett Kavanaugh, whose nomination was embroiled in partisan politics and allegations he committed sexual assault in high school.

Republican and Democrat Senators clash over whether they should move ahead with the confirmation vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as…

Awaiting Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) to speak on the Senate floor regarding her decision on the vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking…

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin joins Sens. Jeff Flake and Susan Collins to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination; Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski voted no. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as…

Tensions heightened on Capitol Hill as the Senate braced on Wednesday for the results of an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Republican senators said they expected to receive transcripts of interviews from the abbreviated background check into Kavanaugh as early as Wednesday, one day after Trump inflamed an already toxic political brawl over the judge’s nomination by mocking a woman who has accused his nominee of sexual assault. Three key Republicans condemn Trump for mocking Christine Blasey Ford Read more In a letter addressed to the committee’s chairman, Chuck Grassley, and signed by eight of the panel’s 10 Democrats, they challenged the veracity of a tweet sent on Tuesday by the Republican majority that said: “Nowhere in any of these six FBI reports, which the committee has reviewed on a bipartisan basis, was there ever a whiff of ANY issue – at all – related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse.” Democrats said the information is “not accurate” and demanded the Republicans correct the statement. Following the hearing, Flake triggered the fresh FBI investigation of Kavanaugh last Friday when he agreed to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination – but only if there was a week delay for law enforcement to investigate allegations of serious sexual misconduct against the judge. Ford and Kavanaugh have not yet been interviewed. The findings will be shared with the White House and with the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will make it available to all the senators and a handful of aides. In short, cloture is a way of cutting off debate and ending a filibuster on a particular issue before the US Senate – part of a multi-step process that culminates in a final vote on legislation or a nomination. In the case of judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnell, must first file for cloture, which will set the stage for a final vote on Kavanaugh's supreme court nomination. Republicans have a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and could vote to invoke cloture without support from a single Democrat. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell repeated his vow to hold a cloture vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination by the end of the week, saying: “It’s time to put this embarrassing spectacle behind us.” The findings, which will include interviews with key witnesses, will be relayed to the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) weighs in on the accusation of sexual assault leveled against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh has denied the accusation.