Elections have consequences. Such a simple, yet incredibly true phrase. In fact, I think I’ve heard it somewhere before. Perhaps even a former Democrat president once uttered those words. This is simple. In 2016, Obama did not have the votes to move his nomination forward. That was the cost of losing the Senate in 2014. Today, President Trump likely does have the votes, so the vote will go forward. That’s the reward for winning in 2016 and keeping the Senate in 2018. Nothing else past that matters. It would not matter one iota what olive branch Republicans tried to extend here. Democrats would spit in their face and blow up the filibuster in 2021 anyway if they took back power. That’s why any attempt at compromise here can’t happen. The GOP have the power, and they were given that power specifically for this moment. Let Obama go enjoy his mansion and Netflix contract. His opinion on the Supreme Court doesn’t matter.President Trump Responds to Barack Obama About the Supreme Court
— RedState (@RedState) September 20, 2020
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SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER: “No one should be surprised that a Republican Senate majority would vote on a Republican President’s Supreme Court nomination even during a presidential election year. The Constitution gives senators the power to do it. The voters who elected them expect it” pic.twitter.com/TRrDzc2Bu6
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) September 20, 2020
>@LamarAlexander speaks. pic.twitter.com/QcpHV3mH3u
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 20, 2020