Really not a shock. I think the Putin visit is timed to be a part of the campaign period as well. There’s probably a white-board in the President’s office with five or six public events to really grab public attention, and downplay the Democrats.
Why wait. Confirm him ASAP, and then put a voter ID law before the court right before the election
In my view, McConnell could be a lot less clunky with this execution. He could schedule the vote in Sept. and leave the Dems all the free time they need to campaign during the Oct. recess. If it were scheduled for Sept. 21, that’s a whole 2 months from now.
McConnell’s right. Scheduling the confirmation vote for just before the election will cause the Democrats to take some of the time off of their campaigns to go through documents and continue being obsessed with the confirmation. Their crazed constituents, fire up by needless, Democrat-fabricated hysteria about the abortion issue, will continue to demand it from them.
Confirmation will be all the more likely then, too. Kavanaugh already went through a lengthy confirmation process and will emerge from this one confirmed again.
McConell should get the vote done in September and put him on the court when it resumes in October. This will give the pubbies plenty of time to let the public know who votes against him to help Trump candidates. But, who can trust McConell?
Vote next week!!!! Do not give the dems any time to dredge up some writing, twist the words and demagogue it. Keep putting wins in the column. That is what keeps the base fired up and the dems despondent and crazy.
Election eve? I thought they planned to hold the vote before the new SCOTUS term starts in October. Just get him confirmed ASAP and don’t play games with this.
Good move.
Schumer needs to shut up and crawl back into whatever hole he came out of.
But I thought McTurtle said he would be confirmed by early fall, so as to have him on the bench for the opening of the SCOTUS session?
Couldnt this backfire and motivate the pro abortion/antifa base?
Delaying the vote through October may also deprive the same incumbent Democrats of their October recess and the ability to campaign full-time.
Thumb screws do work.
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Mitch grew a spine.
Idiot vote as soon as you can.