President Trump said Tuesday during the first presidential debate he has a constitutional right to nominate a new justice to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, while Democrat Joe Biden said the president’s nominee would endanger Obamacare and women’s rights.
“We won the election. Elections have consequences,” Trump said.
“We should wait and see what the outcome of this election is,” Biden responded.
The debate was filled with interruptions, crosstalk and name-calling, and led Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Network and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News each to call it the worst debate they had ever seen.
A CBS News/YouGov poll after the debate said only 17 percent of debate watchers said they were “informed” by the debate. About one-third (31 percent) said they were entertained. More than two-thirds (69 percent) said they were “annoyed.”
The opening topic focused on Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Trump emphasized he is elected for four years, not three, and constitutionally doesn’t have to wait for the election to conclude.
“We have the Senate, we have the White House, and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all,” Trump said. “… In fact, some of her biggest endorsers are very liberal people from Notre Dame and other places. So I think she’s going to be…
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