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McConnell reiterates that Senate would confirm a Supreme Court nominee if there's a vacancy this year - CNNPolitics

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday again reiterated his position that the GOP-led Senate would confirm a nominee to any Supreme Court vacancy that occurred this election year, despite leaving a seat vacant in 2016 and preventing President Barack Obama's nominee from consideration.

"If you're asking me a hypothetical ... we would fill it," the Kentucky Republican told Fox NewsThursday.
"Let me remind you what I said in 2016. I said you'd have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy on the Supreme Court occurring during a presidential election year was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the President. That was the situation in 2016. That would not be the situation in 2020," he said.
 
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