The Republican National Committee video montage of prominent Democrats uses the tagline: '2020 Democrats should listen to 2016 Democrats.'
The edited clips lack context and none of the Democrats that appear in the two-minute video referenced the issue of a president nominating a replacement justice so close to an election.
Senior Republicans have faced criticism over their support for Trump to choose a nominee to fill the vacancy left byResurfaced quotes from several GOP leaders have left them open to claims of hypocrisy after revealing how they previously insisted a president at the end of their four-year term should delay the Supreme Court appointment process until after the election., who argued that a sitting president should not consider a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to an election.
"If there's a Republican president [elected] in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, 'Let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,'"
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