Tennessee Democrat Senate candidate staff says he was just being political by saying he would back Kavanaugh

Town Hall:
James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Action has caught Tennessee Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen's campaign staffers admitting on tape that the supposedly moderate politician is actually pulling a political ruse over Tennessee voters by claiming to support President Trump's agenda as well as lying about his would-be vote for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had he been in senate.

In a roughly 10 minutes long video released on Wednesday night, undercover operatives for James O'Keefe recorded a Bredesen campaign field organizer by the name of Will Stewart calling the people of Tenessee "ignorant" and claiming his candidate only announced support for Brett Kavanaugh because it would be politically expedient.

“So he’ll lose voters if he says yes [to not confirming Kavanaugh?]" the undercover journalist asks.

“Oh, straight up, yeah," Stewart responds.

“Are the people of Tennessee that ignorant?" the PV mole asks in reply.

“Yeah," Stewart says.

Then, at one point in the video, the journalist expresses her confusion as to whether or not Bredesen would actually vote for Kavanaugh. "He wouldn’t. But he’s saying he would… Which I don’t know if it makes it worse or better," Stewart answers before finally saying that this lie actually "makes it better."

Another staffer, Maria Amalla, adds "...it’s a political move… He thinks that like we’re down like half a point right now. It’s like really close and we’re losing by a point or two. So he thinks that if like by saying this he’s appealing to more moderate republicans and he’ll get more of them to vote for us."

Amalla seems to disagree with this political choice saying, "I guess we won't know until November 6th if this was worth it."
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There is more.  You can watch teh video at the link above.

I think Tennessee voters were already concerned about giving Democrats a Senate majority and Blackburn has been moving ahead in most recent polls.  This video my accelerative that move.

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