Red state Democrats won't let photographers in the room when they meet with Brett Kavanaugh
by Philip Wegmann
| August 15, 2018 02:37 PM
In politics, the cliché is especially true: A photo really is worth a thousand words – and possibly a couple attack ads later on during the campaign.
Perhaps that’s why none of the Democratic senators who have sat down with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have agreed to let press photographers into the room. Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota defied their leadership by agreeing to meet the nominee. None, however, were brave enough to allow a press spray into their offices.
This is deliberate, of course. Without a press spray, as Igor Bobic of HuffPost points out, exposure is limited.
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