Inside the Kavanaugh media defense: “He didn’t need much convincing.”

Inside the White House on Sunday afternoon, the team of Brett M. Kavanaugh had been scrambling to shut down the latest disaster in what once seemed a certain nomination: a coming New Yorker story outlining a new accusation of harassment against Kavanaugh.

The Drudge Report had already teased the piece — “Another Woman?” — atop the site just an hour before publication. This, following a Washington Post story a week prior in which Christine Blasey Ford alleged that Kavanaugh had pinned her to a bed during a high school party and attempted to assault her. Kavanaugh denied the allegations.