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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that President Joe Biden would not get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed in 2024 if Republicans regain control of the chamber and a vacancy arises during that presidential election year.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a news conference with fellow Republican senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2021. REUTERS/ERIN SCOTT
“It’s highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election,” McConnell told syndicated conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
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Mitch McConnell Rips President Joe Biden Over Breakdown in Infrastructure Talks
On 6/9/21 at 1:59 PM EDT
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped the Biden administration on Wednesday for cutting off infrastructure negotiations with U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who has had multiple conversations directly with President Joe Biden in recent days to try to hash out an agreement that GOP lawmakers could get behind. [Capito] s led several of our colleagues in literally exhaustive efforts to put a bipartisan deal within reach, the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. An agreement requires that actually each side is willing to give up some of what it wants, and as we learned yesterday, President Biden is unwilling to let go of some of the most radical promises he made to the left wing of his party.