Pelosi urges early voting to counter GOP's SCOTUS gambit: 'There has to be a price to pay'
By Mike Lillis - 09/25/20 11:25 AM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is offering advice to Americans put off by the Republicans' effort to fill a Supreme Court vacancy just weeks before the elections: vote early.
"If the Republicans insist on going forward, then there has to be a price to pay," she said Friday in an interview with "CBS This Morning."
A host of recent polls show that most Americans oppose the Republicans' rush to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so close to the elections, preferring that the Senate wait to see the outcome of the presidential race.
Buoyed by those surveys, Pelosi and her Democratic allies are promoting voter mobilization as the single best way for frustrated Americans to respond.
"This is totally, completely inappropriate, and counter to what they said when Justice [Antonin] Scalia passed," she said. "But it's no use getting into their hypocrisy. What we have to make sure people know, they must vote and must vote early, so that the message, — their voices, their vote — that that message comes clearly."
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