Senator Heidi Heitkamp Says Brett Kavanaugh’s Body Language Helped Determine Her Vote
The voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was certainly a close call. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, the first woman from North Dakota elected to the U.S. Senate, was planning on voting to confirm him, reported the Washington Post. She even had a prepared statement to explain her reasoning for her choice. Then, she witnessed Kavanaugh’s testimony.
“We communicate not only with words, but with our body language and demeanor,” she explained to CNN’s Dana Bash. “I saw somebody who was very angry, who was very nervous…I saw rage.”
Heitkamp ultimately voted against confirming Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. It was his response to Senator Amy Klobuchar’s questioning, Heitkamp said, that sealed the deal for her. When Klobuchar asked Kavanaugh whether he had ever blacked out from drinking, he angrily responded, “I don’t know, have you?” Klobuchar has just finished discussing her father’s struggle with alcoholism to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
