Public opinion appears to be turning against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The Morning Consult/Politico survey of 1,966 registered voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. It indicates that 37 percent believe the Senate should not confirm Kavanaugh, while 34 percent say that it should. Another 29 percent of voters said they did not know or did not express an opinion.

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It is the first time since the poll began asking the question that a plurality of voters opposed President Donald Trump’s choice to succeed the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the nation’s highest tribunal.

Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, said support for Kavanaugh remains strong in some Republican-leaning states that have Democratic senators. She said her organization, which has spent millions of dollars supporting the nominee, found 20-point spreads in favor of confirmation in its most recent surveys of voters in West Virginia and Indiana.

Both of those states have Democratic incumbents running for re-election in November.

“There’s a lot of people who see this … as a hit job on the judge,” Severino told LifeZette.

Under intense criticism from Democrats, support for Kavanaugh (pictured above) has been eroding for weeks even before sexual misconduct allegations surfaced. A Morning Consult survey taken in July, shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him, showed support for Kavanaugh by a margin of 40 percent to 28 percent.

By mid-August, that margin had shrunk to 33 percent to 27 percent. A poll taken September 17-19 showed Kavanaugh with a 1-point margin. The latest survey, conducted between Thursday and Sunday, occurred largely before a second accuser came forward and entirely before a third accuser on Wednesday sent an affidavit to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Kavanaugh has categorically denied all of the allegations — by California clinical psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, that he tried to rape her at a party when they were in high school; by Yale University classmate Deborah Ramirez, that he exposed himself to her at a dorm party; and by Julie Swetnick, that he was present at high school parties that featured “gang” rapes.

Fueling Kavanaugh’s public erosion is a drop in support by Republican voters. The poll showed 58 percent of Republicans support confirmation and 14 percent oppose. That is an 11-point drop in net support from the last poll. Net support among Republican women is down 18 points, with 49 percent now favoring confirmation.

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Other findings include:

  • Seventy-five percent of respondents have heard “a lot” or “some” about the accusations against Kavanaugh.
  • Thirty-seven percent say Senate Republicans are moving too fast on the nomination, with 20 percent saying they are proceeding at the right pace and 15 percent believing the process is moving too slowly.
  • Among Democrats, 63 percent say Republicans are going too fast. Some 35 percent of independents think the same thing.

Kavanaugh has fared better in some other polls.

A Rasmussen Reports survey on Tuesday, for instance, indicated that 56 percent of likely voters believe Kavanaugh deserves an up or down vote in Senate.