They truly thought that Ford’s allegation would be too much for Kavanaugh’s wife and children to handle and that they would force him to resign, not only from the nomination but also from the DC appeals court. When it became obvious that stalling the vote was not putting enough pressure on her, (remember, the longer they were able to stall the more negative stories and character assassination came out, upping the pressure), it became clear that that had failed and they had to add new allegations, vague and without corroboration, in order to pressure him more.
From my perspective, from the reports I’ve read, most all the witnesses, their statements, the timing, lack of any significant evidence as well as their allegations themselves, reek like a 4 day old homicide scene.
It’s painfully obvious this is all being concocted and orchestrated by leftist individuals and groups. Smells like a deep state operation. They’re experts at attempting to discredit, smear and undermine individual political targets as well as being experts at overthrowing and or destabilizing entire countries. They wrote the book on this stuff.