Fox News' Geraldo Rivera invents curious 'tie goes to the nominee' standard

Some people think Brett Kavanaugh was telling the truth during his Thursday Senate hearing. Others believe his accuser Christine Blasey Ford. For those who can't decide, Fox News' Geraldo Rivera has a solution.

On Thursday, Ford emotionally relayed a story to the Senate Judiciary Committee accusing the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her. Kavanaugh vehemently denied her story to the committee just hours later. And Rivera thinks they "both were speaking their truth," he said in a Friday tweet.

Like some Republicans who believed Kavanaugh but also found Ford credible, that leaves Rivera in a sticky spot. But he's got a simple fix: "Tie goes to the nominee," Rivera tweeted.

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Any conflicted Republicans seemed to follow Rivera's new rule, with Sen. Jeff Flake's (R-Ariz.) Friday promise to vote in favor of Kavanaugh all but guaranteeing the nomination will move to a full Senate vote.