"The Times also reported that the claimant said she herself is uncertain of her claim. That's The New York Times whose credo is 'all the news that's fit to print.' And it found this latest last-minute allegation not even fit to print," McConnell said during a blistering Senate floor speech.

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The New Yorker reported on Sunday that Senate Democrats are investigating a sexual misconduct allegation dating back to Kavanaugh’s freshman year at Yale.

But The York Times noted in a story on Sunday that it had interviewed "several dozen people over the past week" to try to corroborate Ramirez's claim but "could find no one with firsthand knowledge."

Ronan Farrow, one of the two writers of The New Yorker piece, noted on Twitter on Monday that it wasn't accurate to say The Times "declined" to publish Ramirez's story.

Republicans are using The New York Times to try to undercut Democrats as well as a New Yorker piece on a second sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.Deborah Ramirez says Kavanaugh exposed himself in front of her during a gathering at Yale. She told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face, causing her to touch it without her consent. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations."Their reporter pursued Ramirez aggressively. She declined to participate because she was talking exclusively to the New Yorker," he added.