Voters Believe Winner of Election Should Fill Court Vacancy, Poll Shows
Source: nytimes
A Times/Siena College poll showed that 56 percent said the next president should nominate a Supreme Court justice. And Joe Biden retained a clear lead over President Trump, 49 to 41 percent.
Jonathan MartinAlexander Burns
By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
Sept. 27, 2020Updated 6:21 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — A clear majority of voters believes the winner of the presidential election should fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to a national poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, a sign of the political peril President Trump and Senate Republicans are courting by attempting to rush through an appointment before the end of the campaign.
In a survey of likely voters taken in the week leading up to Mr. Trump’s nomination on Saturday of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the high court, 56 percent said they preferred to have the election act as a sort of referendum on the vacancy. Only 41 percent said they wanted Mr. Trump to choose a justice before November.
More striking, the voters Mr. Trump and endangered Senate Republicans must reclaim to close the gap in the polls are even more opposed to a hasty pick: 62 percent of women, 63 percent of independents and 60 percent of college-educated white voters said they wanted the winner of the campaign to fill the seat.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES /
SIENA COLLEGE POLL
Joseph R.
Biden Jr.
Donald
Trump
49%
41%
Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll of 950 likely voters from Sept. 22 to Sept. 24.
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