Just as Mitch McConnell held up Judge Merrick Garland's appointment during the Obama administration, he has said from the beginning that he was going to get this done by the beginning of October.
Axelrod compares the current situation with Kavanaugh's nomination to the previous delay of Garland's appointment.
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Well, the question is, what would prevent them from doing things similar to what they've done before? And I think that's the thing that the president and the Republican Party should worry about.
One of the things that he -- one of the habits of Donald Trump is he doesn't tolerate prosperity very well, his own prosperity. And I think the lesson he's drawn from the last four years is he can get away with anything.
I think the darker interpretation of what we saw today is that they were setting up a pretext, he and the vice president for walking away from Ukraine and blaming Zelenskyy for it.
I don't know one person in this country. I don't believe there's one person who went to the polls on -- in November and said, man, I really want Greenland.
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