The process as designed, would take 14 years to fill the normal vacancies when Administrations change (every 4-8 years), if the opposition demands the full time for each one.
So that’s what the Dems have done - spitefully require the max time for each one, with no basis beyond blatant obstruction.
The rules have to change.
Republicans supporting their POTUS? What a marvel.
The GOP had better plan on making sure they have at least 26 reliably solid red states in the future or else this will backfire on them.
What do you all think of these “Solid Red State” US Senators? Doug Jones of Alabama, Jon Tester of Montana, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia?
Trump won 30 States in 2016. But how many of them are vulnerable to him and GOP losing in 2020? Hmmmm - Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona could turn “blue” and make it practically impossible for any Dem to get less than 270 EV’s in the future. The Senate seems like the surest GOP firewall to stop the National Socialism movement of the 2020’s that could bring us the Third American Reich - i.e. Articles of Confederation ratified in 1781, Constitution ratified in 1788, and the “We ignore the Constitution” leadership of AOC & others in the 2020s.
Those last 4 saw crucial statewide races won by Democrats in Nov 2018. The GOP’s future is fragile unless they can win the hearts and minds of Americans to keep the new Third Reich from happening. The GOP has 53 seats right now because Susan Collins of Maine, Corey Gardner of Colorado, and seats held by Republicans in some very purple states.