WASHINGTON ― Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer laid out the stakes for the 2020 elections Thursday, saying that it’s imperative Democrats focus on winning back more than just the presidency and making sure that Mitch McConnell is no longer the majority leader.
McConnell, of course, famously blocked President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee from even getting a hearing in the Senate in the final year of his presidency. Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March 2018, after conservative justice Antonin Scalia passed away. Although Obama still had nearly a year left in office, McConnell refused to consider Garland and give him a vote ― saying it should be left to the next president to fill the spot.
“Obviously, if you have a vacancy in the first year of a term of a president, you’re not going to fail to fill the vacancy for a very lengthy period of time no matter what political opposition is,” McConnell said. “I can’t imagine any scenario under which the early part of a president’s term you would not have a vote. That doesn’t mean the person would necessarily be confirmed.”
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has taken a bit of heat from progressive activists this cycle for intervening in competitive primaries.
McConnell the human stop sign.
Womp, womp
As it should be, Chuck please retire
hotchef9 Where's the news's in this?
Good!!!
Don't you have to be president to make these picks ?
Hope so!
McConnell is too old to b so contrary!
Who cares they won’t have a Democratic President
I hope so.
Moscow Mitch will be voted out this year.
Real prescient there, Chuck.
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