John Cornyn and Ted Cruz decline to question Christine Blasey Ford directly

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 5:05 a.m.

Instead of questioning Christine Blasey Ford personally, U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz delegated their time to sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, whom committee Republicans hired to ask questions of Ford for the GOP senators, a move widely viewed as saving the panel's 11 Republican men from the optics of questioning a woman who has alleged sexual assault.

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