/----/RUSH: CNN is not happy. They have a poll out showing Trump’s approval ratings have spiked and gone up at the conclusion of the Kavanaugh confirmation fight. Not cool. Also, independents disapprove of the Democrats’ handling of the Kavanaugh nomination by a 28-point margin in the CNN poll. That’s not how it was supposed to be. That’s not what people were supposed to conclude. People were supposed to conclude that Kavanaugh is unfit!
He is back to where he was. Trump slipped badly in the last poll. Now he is back to where he has been for months, 41 or 42%. There is a far larger factor.
On October 3rd, before a crowd in Southaven, Mississippi, Trump imitated Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, mocking her for not knowing the answers to certain vital questions.
"I had one beer. Well, do you think it was -- nope, it was one beer," Trump said.
"How did you get home? I don't remember. How'd you get there? I don't remember. Where is the place? I don't remember. How many years ago was it? I don't know."
Trump's comments were met with laughter and applause from the crowd of southerners.
Perhaps the most popular member of Trump's staff, one of Trump's most senior female advisors, the U.N. ambassador for the United States, Nikki Haley, wrote her letter of resignation.
The letter of resignation was dated October 3rd.
I do not believe in coincidence.
Her resignation became public today, Tuesday. It is very odd for a very high profile member of an administration to resign four weeks before a crucial national election.
Haley's staff was informed earlier today. The White House, including John Kelly, James Mattis, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton were taken completely by surprise.
I do not believe in coincidence!
He was already losing the female vote. Now this.