Majority of Americans, including many Republicans, say wait for election
to replace Ginsburg - Reuters poll
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[September 21, 2020]
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of
Americans, including many Republicans, want the winner of the November
presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the
U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on
Sunday.
The national opinion poll, conducted Sept. 19-20 after Ginsburg's death
was announced, suggests that many Americans object to President Donald
Trump's plan, backed by many Senate Republicans, to push through another
lifetime appointee and cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.
The poll found that 62% of American adults agreed the vacancy should be
filled by the winner of the Nov. 3 matchup between Trump and Democratic
former Vice President Joe Biden, while 23% disagreed and the rest said
they were not sure.
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Eight out of 10 Democrats - and five in 10 Republicans - agreed that the
appointment should wait until after the election.
Trump needs the support of the Senate, which currently has a 53-47
Republican majority to confirm a nominee. So far two Republican senators
- Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski - have said publicly
since Ginsburg's death Friday that they think the winner of the election
should make the nomination.
Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed a vote with
weeks to go in Trump's term.
Democrats are still seething over his refusal to act on Democratic
President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016
after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died 10 months before that
election. McConnell said then that the Senate should not act on a court
nominee during an election year, a stance he has since reversed.
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A poster with an image of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg is pictured as people gather outside the U.S. Supreme
Court for a vigil following her death, in Washington, U.S.,
September 19, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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The looming fight over the Supreme Court vacancy so far does not
appear to have given either of the two major political parties much
of an advantage in an incendiary campaign season that already was
expected to break participation records.
The poll found that 30% of American adults said that Ginsburg's
death will make them more likely to vote for Biden while 25% said
they were now more likely to support Trump. Another 38% said that it
had no impact on their interest in voting, and the rest said they
were not sure.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout
the United States. It gathered responses from 1,006 American adults,
including 463 Democrats and 374 Republicans. It has a credibility
interval, a measure of precision, of plus or minus 4 percentage
points.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Scott Malone and Steve
Orlofsky)
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