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Emily Reid National: Hearing for Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh started this week. President Trump selected Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kavanaugh, a conservative judge, was questioned this week, by the Senate Judiciary Committee about his position on key topics such as abortion rights, presidential power and the second amendment. Former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, 76, will be filling late John McCain’s senate seat until a new congressional term starts in Jan. 2019. Kyl and McCain served together representing their home state for almost 20 years. President Trump fired back, calling the writer “gutless” and demanding the New York Times release the name of the author. Local: The GOP spent 1.8 million dollars this week on two competitive Kansas representative districts: the third district race with Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder verses Democrat Sharice Davids, and the race for the vacant seat left by Senator Lynn Jenkins, which is a toss up between Democrat Paul Davis and Republican Steve Watkins. Republican Kris Kobach, Democrat Laura Kelly and Independent Greg Orman, the candidates for Kansas governor had a fierce debate in Overland Park on Wednesday. They talked tax cuts, immigration, education and gun rights., only agreeing on legalizing sports betting in Kansas. Former Republican Kansas Governor Bill Graves announced his support Tuesday, for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Laura Kelly.

Unfortunately for Bachrach, Joseph Kennedy II—Robert Kennedy’s son—soon entered the race, as well. Kennedy won endorsements from O’Neill, Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, the Boston Herald, and The Boston Globe, and went on to win. In O’Neill’s famous dictum, all politics really was local. Capuano, Kennedy’s successor, was born in Somerville, in the heart of the Eighth (now the Seventh) District. He garnered the endorsements of Boston’s top Democrats. It didn’t matter that Capuano had the stronger Boston accent and Boston lineage. And in 2018, regional identity matters less than it once did and ideological identity matters more. But overall, as the University of Pennsylvania political scientist Dan Hopkins argues in his book The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized, “the debates in states and even some localities have taken on a national hue.” Party platforms don’t differ much by region anymore. Which helps explain why Democrats in Texas increasingly resemble Democrats in Massachusetts. Ayanna Pressley may not have as strong a Boston accent as Michael Capuano.

Wednesday was quite day for "this town," featuring an apparent rogue cadre of Trump administration officials trying to restrain the president, the second day of hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a congressman auctioneering to drown out a protester, and Kim Kardashian West advocating for criminal justice reform. Here's a recap of what happened in politics on Wednesday: "Quiet resistance" within the White House If President Trump was already paranoid about leakers in the administration, he has even more reason for concern today. The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed it says is by a senior official in the Trump administration, who wrote that there is a "quiet resistance" to the president within his own administration "working diligently" to block Mr. Trump's "worst inclinations." The op-ed claimed that a number of administration officials were working to restrain the president's "half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions." Mr. Trump suggested that Woodward might be a "Democratic operative" and that the publication of the book was timed to interrupt the Kavanaugh hearings. Day 2 of the Kavanaugh hearings Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee until well into Wednesday evening for his second day of confirmation hearings, answering mainly friendly questions from Republican members and testy interactions with Democratic members. The hearing was interrupted intermittently by protesters. Selling a protester to the highest bidder There were two other noteworthy hearings on Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the role of social media in politics. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared at the Senate hearing, but Google declined to send a representative. Dorsey acknowledged that Twitter's verification system needs an overhaul — including possible promotion of reporters' tweets.