I'm Ryan Grimm. Welcome to Deconstructed. We're less than 18 days away from the election,

and Senate Republicans have spent the past week pushing Amy Coney Barrett through the

Judiciary Committee. Anger at the Audacity of Republicans for moving so quickly to fill

RBG's seat, even as people are already voting for the next president, has triggered a

historic flood of small dollars to Joe Biden and Senate Democratic candidates. Here's South

Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. My opponent will raise almost $100 million. I'm being killed

financially. This money is cost they hate my guts. And it's giving Democrats the higher ground

in those races. Here's Lindsey Graham's opponent, Jamie Harrison, in their recent debate.

Your words, your promise was that no judicial nominee should be considered or approved or what

have you in the last year of an election. And you even named President Trump when you said it.

Just be a man of it and stay in the up and say, you know what, I changed my mind. I'm going to do

something else. But don't go back and blame it on somebody else for something a flip flop that

you're making yourself. In the third quarter, Harrison raised a stupifying $57 million and

Graham, chairman of the judiciary committee, clearly thought this would be a way to even the score.

Here he is in a Senate office building this week. Bear in mind when listening,

that soliciting campaign cash inside a federal building is a crime.

I think people in South Carolina are excited about Judge Barrett. I don't know how much it affected

fundraising today. But if you want to help me close the gap, Lindsey Graham.com a little bit

for their part, Democrats made the confirmation hearings about the Affordable Care Act.

But if the court does strike down the ACA in the upcoming case, Democrats can fix it with a one

line piece of legislation if they control Congress in the White House next year. Still, it was

clearly smart short-term politics and has Republican incumbents scrambling to promise they'll

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