Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa are the two leading contenders for Ginsburg’s seat
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
| 0:05.6 | 202 for Monday, September 21st. In today's news, the US will imminently |
| 0:12.3 | reach 200,000 fatalities from the coronavirus. |
| 0:17.0 | The Tik-Toc tussle shows the uneven economic decoupling that's accelerating between us and China. And after a police |
| 0:24.9 | shooting ignited unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, officers say the department's |
| 0:29.5 | race problems run deep. But first, the big idea. President Trump is |
| 0:38.3 | preparing to nominate a successor this week to fill the vacancy |
| 0:42.3 | created by Supreme Court Justice Ruth |
| 0:44.0 | Bader Ginsburg's death from cancer on Friday night. Democratic leaders |
| 0:48.5 | including Joe Biden accused Republicans of political opportunism and hypocrisy and vowed to fight any effort to |
| 0:54.9 | rush confirmation of a Trump nominee in the GOP-controlled Senate. With the election |
| 0:59.0 | 44 days away, Democrats say it would be a grave injustice and a violation of conscience to |
| 1:04.0 | advance a Trump nominee before the voters rendered judgment on the president. |
| 1:07.3 | Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, |
| 1:11.7 | said over the weekend that whoever is elected |
| 1:14.2 | president in November should nominate Ginsburg's replacement but it would take |
| 1:18.8 | four Republican senators joining with all 47 Democrats and Independence |
| 1:22.6 | who Caucus of Democrats to block consideration of a Trump pick. |
| 1:26.6 | It is not publicly known whether any other Republicans would join Collins and Murkowski, |
| 1:31.4 | though Trump advisors see Mitt Romney as a possible third defection. |
| 1:35.0 | The Senate GOP Dynamics will come in to clear a focus on Tuesday when lawmakers return to |
| 1:40.0 | Washington and are able to strategize together at their regular weekly lunch. |
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