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On the recordOctober 26, 2020
If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against me, and you'd be absolutely right.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Graham acknowledges his previous stance on allowing the next president to make nominations.

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