Joe Biden personally appealed to the handful of Republican senators who control the fate of Donald Trump’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee today and framed the firestorm over the vacancy as a referendum on Obamacare, union rights and Dreamers
While engaging holdout Republicans, Biden repeatedly painted the Trump-Mitch McConnell position to swiftly fill the seat as driven by a craven thirst for power.
Biden referred to the 2016 precedent created by the GOP leader as “the McConnell Rule: absolutely no hearing and no vote for a nominee in an election year. Period. No caveats.” He also called out then-chair of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham, the current chair, for piously taking similar positions at the time.
To that end, he specifically pointed to the millions of Americans who are already voting in states that allow it. Biden, his running mate Kamala Harris, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and their staffs have been in close contact and are coordinating regularly with Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, aides said.
"There is so much at stake — the right to health care, clean air and water, and equal pay for equal work," he said. "The rights of voters, immigrants, women, and workers. And right now, our country faces a choice. A choice about whether we can come back from the brink."
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