“Fill that seat!” the crowd chanted at Trump's campaign rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, President Donald Trump relished the opportunity to promise his supporters that he would fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, a move designed to energize his voters just weeks before the election.
In 2016, the Republican-led Senate refused to hold a vote on President Barack Obama’s nominee for a vacancy, Merrick Garland, claiming it was because it was an election year. This time around, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to hold a vote on Trump’s nominee, though he hasn’t specified timing.
And during the event, when Trump announced he would nominate a woman next week, he took two "very scientific" polls, as he described them jokingly, on whether he should pick a woman or man. The crowd cheered louder for a woman. "If I lose to him, I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he said. "I’ll never speak to you again. You’ll never see me again. How do you lose?"
And he mocked Biden for failing to release a list of possible Supreme Court nominees as he did last when he updated a previous list.Trump again heaped praise on his administration for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, but on Saturday he said little about the actual pandemic. “We're rounding the turn,” he said. “We're rounded the corner of the pandemic.”
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