That 0-6 reference was to the fact that McCaskill has voted with Democrats for the first five Supreme Court nominees during her 12-year tenure in the Senate, and Kavanaugh would make it six.

On Wednesday, Hawley said that Democrats had staged an “ambush” on Kavanaugh with the sex assault allegations, and that their calls for more investigations and hearings is “making a mockery of this process.”

But McCaskill said in her statement that she had decided to vote no aside from those allegations.

“While the recent allegations against him are troubling and deserve a thorough and fair examination by the Senate Judiciary Committee, my decision is not based on those allegations but rather on his positions on several key issues, most importantly the avalanche of dark, anonymous money that is crushing our democracy,” her statement said.

Previously, she had tried to argue that there was no political advantage in Missouri to either vote on Kavanaugh.