Senate candidate pushes tougher enforcement of attempted abuse while dismissing Kavanaugh claims

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), his party’s nominee against incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, made national headlines on Friday when he dismissed the first set of allegations of attempted rape against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as “absurd.”  His reasoning: the parties involved were drunk teens and the alleged sexual assault was ““supposedly an attempt or something that never went anywhere.”

But just one day before his suggestion that attemp...