McConnell Refuses to Say He Won’t Confirm a SCOTUS Nominee Next Presidential Election Year

EXCERPT:

WALLACE: “I have to pick up on something that you said because, maybe I ave this wrong, but when you blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination from President Obama, you basically said that we don’t do this in a presidential election year and that we wait until the election and then whoever the people choose, they get to pick the Supreme Court nominee but what you just said now was it’s a question of whether or not it’s the party in control of the Senate is different than the President. The question I guess I’m getting to is, if Donald Trump were to name somebody in the final year of his first term in 2020, are you saying that you would go ahead with that nomination?”

McCONNELL: “I understand your question and what I told you is what the history of the Senate has been. You have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a vacancy created in a presidential election year on the Supreme Court was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the president.”

WALLACE: “If you can answer my direct question.”

McCONNELL: “We'll see whether there’s a vacancy in 2020.”

(h/t Mediaite)