A theory that some Democrats opposing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination have seized on is circumstantial at best: An 18-year-old Kavanaugh’s July 1, 1982, calendar entry may prove Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s contention that he was at a small party where she alleges he perpetrated a sexual assault.

The SCOTUS nominee — who maintained a calendar even as a youth, as he shared in his Thursday testimony (his calendar is shown above, on right) — noted that he was at a house on July 1 with friends.

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) seized on what this entry might mean on Friday during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, one that ultimately resulted in Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-Ariz.) demanding a delay on Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote so that the FBI could investigate — for a time to be limited to one week.

Whitehouse held up a blown-up version of Kavanaugh’s July 1982 calendar.

“Dr. Ford said that Kavanaugh and [Mark] Judge and P.J. [Patrick Smyth] and at least one other boy were all at a house,” he said. Circling names on his blowup of the calendar, Whitehouse continued, ”Well, we know Brett Kavanaugh was there because it’s his schedule, and here’s Judge, and here’s P.J. Here are all those three named boys and others at a house together, just as she said.”

He added, “She [Ford] said Kavanaugh and Judge were drunk and that she had a beer,” while circling the word “skis” on the calendar entry and suggesting that it might be short for “brewskis,” as CNN noted.

“They were drinking, just as she said,” Whitehouse said.

“Now I will concede that the two girls aren’t mentioned,” Whitehouse said. “But spot me this. If you had just sexually assaulted one of the two girls, would you add the girls’ names to your calendar? I doubt it.”

“This may, may, be powerful corroborating evidence that the assault happened. that it happened that day, and that it happened in that place, but with no FBI investigation we can’t tell,” he also said.

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Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor Republicans hired to question Ford and Kavanaugh, also touched on this date on Thursday in a riveting day of testimony seen by millions, as The Washington Post reported.

She specifically asked about the July 1 entry, and Kavanaugh identified the people mentioned in it.

Multiple mainstream media outlets have reported on the July 1, 1982, theory, while others pushed back on the idea that the decades-old calendar entry is some sort of proof that Kavanaugh was, in fact, at the party where Christine Blasey Ford says her attack happened, over three decades ago.

“Some SJC [Senate Judiciary Committee] Dems making big deal of July 1, 1982 party on Kavanaugh calendar. Had Christine Ford in front of them for hours yesterday; would have been great if they had asked her about it,” tweeted Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York.

But many on Twitter are running with this 1982 calendar baton.

Here are a few of their tweets:

See Sen. Whitehouse speak about the calendar in the video below.