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Chris Hayes Compares The Republicans’ Deadline Given To Kavanaugh’s Accuser To Her Actually Getting Raped

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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes made a comparison between the Republican-set deadline for Christine Blasey Ford to decide whether she wants to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and an actually rape on Friday night.

He tweeted, “So even though Dr Ford is saying please stop, slow down, I’m not comfortable with the way this is going, the GOP is gonna plow through, ignore her telling them to stop and just take what they think is rightfully theirs?”

The phrase “plow through,” Hayes pointed out in a follow up tweet, was actually first used by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier on Friday.

The deadline Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley set was 10p.m. Friday night. As that deadline approached, the lawyers for Dr. Ford asked for another day to decide whether she wanted to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (RELATED: A Vote On Kavanaugh Will Happen On Monday If His Accuser Choose Not To Testify)

It’s unclear how Grassley and the judiciary committee will move forward at this time.

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