Leading Republicans, including Graham, have previously argued that a sitting president should not consider a Supreme Court choice in the run-up to an election.
But that intervention opened the Republican senator up to accusations of hypocrisy over previous comments he made which argued that a Supreme Court vacancy in the final year of a presidency should not be filled until after an election.
They were confronted by those gathered in support of Graham and Trump. Video from the event showed members of the group chanting"four more years,""goddamn socialists get the hell out of here" and"get the hell out of my country."On Saturday, a day after the death of Ginsburg, the president urged the Senate to consider"without delay" his upcoming nomination to fill the vacant seat.
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