Former Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE spokesman Josh Schwerin said on Tuesday that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would not have addressed the sexual assault allegations against him in a Fox News interview if he did not think he was in trouble.

"From a purely communications point of view, you don't do this interview if you don't think you're in trouble. No Supreme Court justice or nominee has ever done this before for a reason. It's because it politicizes it. It isn't part of the normal process we go through with the Supreme Court nomination," Schwerin, communications director for Priorities USA, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

Kavanaugh and his wife sat down with Fox News on Monday and denied the two allegations against him.

"I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone," Kavanaugh said. "I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter ... The girls from the schools I went to, and I, were friends."

Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of holding her down and groped her over her clothes during a high school party in 1982, and Deborah Ramirez claimed he exposed himself without her consent during a gathering at Yale University a few years later.

Ford and Kavanaugh are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Former Trump campaign data strategist Matt Braynard, however, said the interview was a good move on Kavanaugh's part, and will make Democrats nervous.

"What we saw was a man who was careful in his words, who's very judicious, and I want to remind you in addition to maintaining his virginity throughout his teenage years and college, he also kept a journal every day of what he was doing throughout his teenage years, so this is a man of tremendous precision," Braynard, executive director of Look Ahead America, told Hill.TV.

"It's kind of a preview of what we're going to see on Thursday, and I think it it's why maybe the Democrats are getting cold feet, and maybe think they may have overplayed their hand here," he continued.

— Julia Manchester