On the recordSeptember 18, 2020
This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016 when there were nearly nine months before the election. That's the position the U.S. Senate must take now when the election is less than two months away.
Joe Biden: “This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016 when there were nearly nine months before the election.…”
Editor's note · Context
Biden argues that the same principle of allowing the elected president to appoint a Supreme Court justice should apply now as it did in 2016.
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