Jim Messina: Justice Breyer’s Retirement ‘Fundamentally Has the Potential to Change the Midterm Elections’

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MESSINA; “Boy, it does, both for the White House, and for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. There’s no better issue that unites the Democratic Party than judicial picks, especially Supreme Court picks. So, you know, for the next month you’ll be asking the White House about who they’re thinking about Supreme Court. You won’t be talking about timing on Build Back Better, you won't be talking about pollings. We’ll be in this national thrall bout who will be the next Supreme Court pick. It just comes at a perfect time on that side. On the other side, you know, this pick will be intensely political, in part because of abortion. As you've said earlier and Jon's talked about the Supreme Court will likely rule on some version of rolling back Roe v. Wade in June, then you have this pick. We’re going to go straight to the politics of the Supreme Court in a way that fundamentally has the potential to change the midterm elections. When you and I were talking about what are the issues that people are talking about, we were talking about the economy. we were talking about inflation. And now we’ll be talking about the politics of the United States Supreme Court."