Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to the president, told Norah O’Donnell of CBS News on Monday morning that the overnight emergence of allegations from a second so-called accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh felt like a “vast left-wing conspiracy.”

“The New York Times says that they interviewed dozens — Norah, dozens — of people over the past couple of weeks trying to verify the second accusation, and they couldn’t go forward with the reporting. Not because they’re supportive of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, but because they have some standards.”

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“Everything that’s being said does not comport with the Judge Kavanaugh that all these women who have dealt with him in pressure situations throughout his adult life in his career have said about him.”

“All the Democrats, every single one, who are calling for ‘delay, delay, obstructions, resistance,’ already said they wouldn’t vote for Judge Kavanaugh,” she added. “This is politics.”

On Sunday evening, a story broke in The New Yorker in which a second accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said the judge had behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner at a dorm room party during his freshman year at Yale.

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The second accuser, 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez of Colorado, indicated she was drunk at the time — that her memories had gaps, and that she was initially “reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.”

The allegation involves an apparent drunken gag during which a fake penis was swapped for a real penis near Ramirez’s face — plus an inadvertent touch as Ramirez was pushing the man away, and subsequent teasing.

Conway pointed out that the allegations against the SCOTUS nominee — both Blasey Ford’s and Ramirez’s — are from when he was a teenager, years and years ago.

She noted that no allegations have emerged from his adulthood and career as a powerful judge — a time period during which one might expect that for many people, an alleged pattern of sexually abusive behavior established in adolescence might continue and even worsen.

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Conway pushed back somewhat on President Trump’s controversial tweet last week in which he indicated that if the incident reported by the original accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, was severe, she or her parents would have reported it to the police.

Judge Kavanaugh has unequivocally and categorically denied the allegations and believes the latest demonstrates a smear campaign pattern.

Conway said that in her experience, some women do not come forward because they fear not being believed.

She added that false accusations make that situation even worse.

“It cuts both ways,” she said, adding that Judge Kavanaugh has unequivocally and categorically denied the allegations and believes the latest demonstrates a smear campaign pattern.

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Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.