"This is a disaster for the Republicans," Fox News host Chris Wallace declared Thursday after Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, testified that she is "100 percent" certain that President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court had assaulted her.

"This was extremely emotional, extremely raw and extremely credible," Wallace said of Ford's opening statement. "And nobody could listen to her deliver those words and talk about the assault and the impact it had had on her life and not have your heart go out to her. She was obviously traumatized by an event."

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Wallace's comments came after he acknowledged earlier Thursday how difficult it is for survivors to come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct. The anchor said on Fox News that the public debates over the validity of the allegations against Trump's Supreme Court nominee prompted his own daughters to reveal some uncomfortable incidents from high school for the very first time.