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On the recordFebruary 1, 2022
What President Biden was, as a candidate, make this pledge. And that helped politicize the entire nomination process.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine
Source
msnbc.com

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Collins discusses how Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court has politicized the nomination process.

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