(09-20-2020, 09:27 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(09-20-2020, 07:42 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: There's an interesting theory making the rounds that Trump might delay naming a new Supreme Court justice until after the election, in order to motivate his supporters to get out and vote.  If he gets one confirmed before the election, that might take away some of the motivation his supporters might have.   He makes "If I win you will get a conservative justice, if I lose you will get a liberal justice" a campaign issue.

Look at it this way: Republican senators want to confirm a new justice before the election because they are worried that Trump might be defeated in the election and they would lose the opportunity.   So why would Trump cooperate with them and have that issue off the table?  He might want to keep that issue alive.

I don't think that theory is off the wall.  It is a gamble. It also doesn't put any additional pressure on Senate races.

Of course, the other side of that theory is that there are a lot of Republicans who have said they are voting for Trump because of the possibility that Supreme Court seats may open up, and if he holds the pick until after the election, he is transparently "sacrificing the good of the country" or "gambling unnecessarily with a Supreme Court seat" for his own personal purposes.  So it's not about what's good for the country, it's about what's good for him.

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