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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 08:52 PM Sep 2020

Majority of voters say Trump should not nominate a Supreme Court justice: poll

A majority of voters say President Trump should not nominate a Supreme Court justice this year, according to a snap poll released Saturday by YouGov.

The poll came less than a day after the U.S. Supreme Court announced liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening of complications from pancreatic cancer.

The poll found that 51 percent of voters believe Trump should not nominate another justice this year, while 42 percent said he should move forward with a nominee. A slight majority, 48 percent, believe the Senate should not confirm a nominee this year. Forty-five percent said the upper chamber should.

Forty-nine percent of respondents said they believe Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would "do a better job" picking a Supreme Court nominee, while 40 percent said Trump would. Eleven percent of respondents were undecided.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-of-voters-say-trump-should-not-nominate-a-supreme-court-justice-poll/ar-BB19djuA?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=DELLDHP

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Majority of voters say Trump should not nominate a Supreme Court justice: poll (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
51/42, which happens to be exactly the Biden/Trump average in the national polls. TwilightZone Sep 2020 #1
I would feel differently about it if mcconman hadn't left scalia's seat open for a year. D23MIURG23 Sep 2020 #5
Pretty much how the race shakes out right now.... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #2
K&R, uponit7771 Sep 2020 #3
This Is Hilarious!! sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #4
Well said. SharonClark Sep 2020 #6

TwilightZone

(25,428 posts)
1. 51/42, which happens to be exactly the Biden/Trump average in the national polls.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 08:54 PM
Sep 2020

What a coincidence!

It's a bit depressing that apparently not even a tiny fraction of Republicans see anything wrong with it.

D23MIURG23

(2,845 posts)
5. I would feel differently about it if mcconman hadn't left scalia's seat open for a year.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 09:28 PM
Sep 2020

If it wasn't OK for Obama to replace scalia in an election year, then it's not OK for trump to replace Ginsburg.

Republicans are ruthless and don't give a fuck about rules, fairness or consistency.

Democrats need to learn from this, and find as many structural exploits as possible to destroy the republican party. Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, abolish the electoral college, pack the courts, RICO investigations into Trump and the RNC. The works. If the republican party is allowed to survive in its current form, the US isn't going to.

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