Updated at 8:52 p.m. ET
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a message for Republican voters who are celebrating the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: Get to the polls in November if you want more conservatives sitting on judicial benches.
“Lose the Senate, and the project of confirming judges is over for the last two years of President Trump,” McConnell said in an interview with NPR in his Capitol Hill office. “That, I think, is a scary prospect to the people who like what we’ve been doing on the judge project and I hope will help us hold on to our majority.”
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