You can bet that whoever is nominated will be a minority so as to paint the GOP as anti-whatever when they kill the nomination. Alinsky-loving OPapaDoc will nominate someone far, far left so as to energize the base of the Democrat Party when the nominee is refused a hearing.
If OPapaDoc was smart he would nominate someone like Orrin Hatch. The GOPe could not hold back from giving him a hearing, and probably confirming. He won't live that long, and he would definitely swing the court to the left of where it was under Scalia.
He'll appoint a minority and the media will wait for a Republican-voting nutjob to disparage either the nominee's race, religion, or sexual orientation. And then they'll rebroadcast that far and wide.
We have a problem in the GOP as we have tolerated, if not fostered in the case of Trump, hate of another's race, religion, or sexual orientation simply because it's a different race, religion, or sexual orientation. Case in point... the Mormon hate in the case of Romney. It was more than just TOS.
(We need another Buckley to cast that out of the GOP and revoke membership of any politician or candidate that espouses it. We did it with David Duke and Pat Buchanan... and we need to do it again.)