There was one thing that could have happened to make this 2020 election cycle more tense,

more divisive, more dangerous.

And it happened.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.

There is an open seat on the Supreme Court.

This is a verdict with Ted Cruz.

Thank you. Supreme Court. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, joined by someone on President

Trump's shortlist for the Supreme Court, Senator Ted Cruz. Though, Senator Cruz,

though I will ask you again and again, you have already expressed

you are not interested in the job.

Well, that's right. I'm not. But what I'm very interested in, and I'll tell you the reason

I'm not interested in the job is the fight we have in the Senate. The president has said rightly

that he's going to make his nomination this week. That's the right

thing to do. And I think it's critical that the Senate confirmed that justice before election day.

And that's part of the reason why I don't want to serve on the court is that right now I got a

job to do, which is lead the fight to get that justice confirmed. And I hope several more justices

afterwards in the president's second term. So we've already established your position, which

happens to be my position, that absolutely the president should nominate a judge to fill this seat.

Absolutely the Senate should confirm that judge. But this is, I guess, a controversial issue, because Democrats are now

pointing to 2016 when Justice Scalia died and Barack Obama put up Merrick Garland as a potential

Supreme Court nominee. And then, and current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said,

no way, we're not going to have a hearing. You're not going to get it in an election year.

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