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Moments before the second day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing began, the panel during NBC News special coverage eagerly touted comparisons between the left-wing Supreme Court nominee and an “Olympic athlete who has been training for this...her whole life.” In addition, expected tough questions from Republican lawmakers were preemptively dismissed as “performative” efforts about “playing to their base.”