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Lindsey Graham: “If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2022
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 would be absolutely right.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Graham's previous stance on Supreme Court nominations during an election year.

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