>>> WE’RE BACK.
ALL SORTS OF TALK HERE 43 DAYS
BEFORE THE ELECTION ABOUT HOW
THE SEAT OCCUPIED BY RUTH BADER
GINSBURG UNTIL HER DEATH ON
FRIDAY.
HOW THAT VACANCY AND THE
PRESIDENT’S VOW TO APPOINT, TO
NOMINATE A SUCCESSOR AND TO PUSH
FOR A SENATE VOTE HOW IT COULD
AFFECT THE ELECTION.
SO, A COUPLE NUMBERS WE CAN SHOW
YOU HERE.
WELL, THERE YOU GO.
YOU CAN SEE IT ALREADY.
2016 TO 2020.
WHAT THIS IS.
THIS WAS A PEW POLL AND THEY
ASKEDASK
ED ABOUT SUPREME COURT
APPOINTMENTS.
THE QUESTION WAS ASKED IN 2016.
FOR DEMOCRATS IN 2016 THE NUMBER
WAS 62% AND IN 2020, IT’S
ACTUALLY TICKED UP.
66%.
SO, DEMOCRATS, THE PERCENTAGE OF
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS IN FOUR YEARS
SAYING THAT SUPREME COURT
APPOINTMENTS THAT, AGAIN, THIS
WAS TAKEN THIS SUMMER.
THIS WAS BEFORE RUTH BADER
GINSBURG’S DEATH.
THAT NUMBER HAS TICKED UP
SLIGHTLY.
THAT IS MORE SIGNIFICANT WHEN
YOU LOOK AT WHAT’S HAPPENED ON
THE REPUBLICAN SIDE IN THAT SAME
TIME.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
REPUBLICANS, THE NUMBER ACTUALLY
WENT DOWN.
SO IN 2016 YOU SEE 70% OF
REPUBLICANS COMPARED TO 62% OF
DEMOCRATS SAY THAT SUPREME COURT
APPOINTMENTS WERE A VERY
IMPORTANT ISSUE NOW AT LEAST
BEFORE GINSBURG’S DEATH AND THE
VACANCY CAUSED BY IT.
IT WAS DEMOCRATS BY A 66-61
MARGIN MORE LIKELY TO SAY IT WAS
A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE.
SO, THE CENTRALITY OF SUPREME
COURT NOMINATIONS TO THE
PARTIES, IT IS DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THIS POLL.
IT’S A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THEIR
MINDS AT LEAST, AGAIN, BEFORE
THIS CURRENT FIGHT.
YOU SAW THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS
IN 2016.
I THINK WE CAN SHOW YOU ON
ELECTION DAY IN 2016.
FOLKS WHO SAID THE SUPREME COURT
VACANCY, REMEMBER IN ’16 THIS
WAS SCALIA’S SEAT AND FOLKS WHO
SAID THIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT
ISSUE TO THEM DECISIVELY HERE A
15-POINT MARGIN WENT FOR TRUMP
OVER CLINTON.
VOTERS WHO WEREN’T IN THIS
CATEGORY CLINTON ACTUALLY WON
BUT IT WAS SOMETHING WHO SAID
THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE TO THEM IN
2016 WAS A SUPREME COURT
NOMINATION.
THEY WERE TRUMP VOTERS IN 2016.
THAT’S WHERE THE SENSE OUT THERE
A LOT WHEN YOU’RE TALKING
SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS AND
YOU’RE TALKING SUPREME COURT
POLITICS, THAT IS AN ISSUE THAT
REALLY ANIMATES AND GALVANIZES
THE REPUBLICAN BASE AND A LOT
HAS TO DO WITH WHAT WE SAW IN
2016.
BUT, AGAIN, SOME SUGGESTION IN
THE NUMBERS, AGAIN, AT LEAST
BEFORE THIS CURRENT FIGHT TOOK
OFF IN THE LAST COUPLE DAYS.
THERE’S BEEN SOME SUGGESTION IN
THE NUMBERS THAT OVER THE LAST
COUPLE YEARS IN THE TRUMP ERA
THROUGH TWO SUPREME COURT FIGHTS
DURING THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY THAT
DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME MORE
ANIMATED BY THIS.
ALSO, THERE IS THIS.
WE CAN SHOW YOU HERE.
LOOK IN 2016, FOLKS WERE ASKED,
EXCUSE ME, RIGHT NOW FOLKS WERE
ASKED WHO DO YOU TRUST TO DO A
BETTER JOB APPOINTING A SUPREME
COURT JUSTICE.
52-45 BIDEN OVER TRUMP AND AN
ADVANTAGE THERE FOR BIDEN.
I PUT THESE BOTH UP HERE AND SAY
KEEP IN MIND IN 2016 WHEN WE
WERE ASKING THESE QUESTIONS, WHO
DO YOU TRUST MORE?
WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD BE BETTER
WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING SUPREME
COURT APPOINTMENTS.
WE DID SEE ON THAT BIG PICTURE
BROAD QUESTION, LED ON THE
SUPREME COURT QUESTIONS IN 2016.
BIDEN HAS THAT ADVANTAGE OVER
TRUMP RIGHT NOW.
SO, THE QUESTION THERE REALLY
BECOMES ONE OF WHO IS MOST
MOTIVATED.
WHO IS MOST ANIMATED BY IT?
THE ANSWER IN 2016 WAS
REPUBLICANS.
THE ANSWER IN 2020 AT LEAST
RIGHT NOW IS NOT SO CLEAR.
SIGNS THAT DEMOCRATS ARE MORE
ENERGIZED AND NOW THAT WE HAVE
THIS NEWS AND NOW THAT THIS