Swing Voters and the Supreme Court Vacancy

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode contains strong language and descriptions of sexual violence. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ensuing battle to fill her seat is set to dominate American politics in the lead up to the election. A poll conducted for The New York Times before Justice Ginsburg’s death found voters in the battleground states of Arizona, Maine and North Carolina placed greater trust in Joseph R. Biden Jr. than in President Trump to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. Now that it’s longer a hypothetical scenario, what impact will the vacant seat have on the thinking of swing voters? We take a look at the polling and ask undecided voters whether the death of Justice Ginsburg and the president’s decision to nominate another justice have affected their voting intention. Guest: Nate Cohn, a domestic correspondent for The Upshot at The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: In surveys before Justice Ginsburg’s death, Joe Biden led by a slightly wider margin on choosing the next justice than he did over all against President Trump.

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0:25.6	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.
0:32.6	This is a daily.
0:39.6	For the past few months, the Times has been pulling voters in swing states and tracking
0:44.7	how the events of the summer are influencing key voters in the issues they care about.
0:51.6	Today.
0:52.6	How will all of that be reshaped by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
0:59.6	It's Tuesday, September 22.
1:10.6	The Supreme Court is on the ballot and the outcome will impact everything from health care
1:15.5	to civil rights affecting generations to come.
1:19.4	The question is, what will be on the minds of voters over the next six weeks?
1:23.5	The virus or this court pick?
1:25.2	So what do polls tell us about whether voters support a Senate vote on the Supreme Court
1:30.4	nominee?
1:31.4	What does it mean for the election and which voters will it energize?
1:34.8	Given what we know, that voters think about this court, the importance of the court, could
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