It very much seems like that is what is going to happen.
McConnell and others aren't going to let the Dems pull another circus like they did with Kavanaugh, not when they think they have the votes to get a floor vote through already.
United States FLASH: U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG DEAD AT 87
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McConnell and others aren't going to let the Dems pull another circus like they did with Kavanaugh, not when they think they have the votes to get a floor vote through already.
Nah, there is too much political value in Harris being on Judiciary.
Without hearings it becomes a story of more norm breaking, the media spinning it hard against Republicans, and lets Biden/Harris try to refocus the campaign on something besides SCOTUS.
With hearings you guarantee full media coverage of the event and are tieing Harris down for the duration of the hearings. If she continues to campaign and leaves DC then she gets tarred as not caring about the Supreme Court and if she does show up for the hearings then she is in a situation where Graham controls her time and she is (somewhat) limited by Senate rules. She also didn't come off that well in the Kavanaugh hearings and doesn't really do well at these kinds of things.
If Barrett is the nominee then Harris also may well attack her on religious grounds, and that will be off putting to a number of voters.
The vote really should be before election day (personally I would try and force it November 1st), but the Republicans should try and drag everything else out to that point and force as much media attention on SCOTUS as possible.
Republicans, be it Trump or House/Senate races, can't win on Covid and don't really have time to make the riots a big enough issue; not with everything tied up in the topic and Covid. They can win on the Supreme Court though; Republican judicial positions are more popular (especially in battleground states) than Democrat ones, forcing Biden to get into specifics can only hurt him, and every time court packing gets brought up it hurts the Democrats (anyone in favor of it was already voting Dem).
The Republicans need to convince the majority of the voters in several states that they fear a Biden Presidency/ Democrat control of the Senate more than they dislike Trump. The best way to do that is to make it SCOTUS all day, every day, and do everything you can as Republicans to enrage the progressives and the media into "the sky is falling" talk. The asshole is preferable to the nut job and since no one thinks Trump isn't an asshole; the Republicans have to frame the Democrats as nut jobs.
Doomsought
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Harris also has a closet full of skeltons that she hasn't even had the skill and guile to hide properly. The more she has to talk, the more chances you have to pull one out and wave it in her face.
Are there that many voters who will vote based on this, when people like me only get our political news from the big three news organizations and online forums, and most don't get it from the later
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
By the way where the hell are the debates. Seriously we should have had at least one by now if Biden had a spine
In a few days on the 30th, keep in mind the first Trump/Clinton debate was on the 26th Sep.
Bigking321
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It would be fascinating if they each had to take a drug test right before the debate to see what they are both on.
Trumps probably on a couple things just due to his age.
But Biden would probably have a insane cocktail of stuff to keep him coherent for the whole debate.
Trumps probably on a couple things just due to his age.
But Biden would probably have a insane cocktail of stuff to keep him coherent for the whole debate.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
He flipped. The seat will be filled.
Guess he sensed the republican voters sharpening their pencils to replace him with a more compliant senator.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Just check hashtag whatever it was for the defectors.
He isn't the only one:
Duke Nukem
Hail to the king baby
I have a feeling that the debate is gonna be comedy gold.
Typhonis
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IF it happens.
Yeah, my bet is that Biden finds a way to dodge doing any debates.
Which is a shame, because I really wanted to see the Joe Rogan moderated debate happen.
He can't because Trump will shame and troll him for a month straight. And you know damn well Trump will do it.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Impeach impeach impeach.
You know what do it.
The first impeachment hurt democrats poll numbers go ahead do it based on nothing during an election year right before an election.
Prince Ire
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And for explicitly nothing but flagrantly political purposes.
Just like the first impeachment.