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In July, Chuck Grassley said he would not process a nomination to the Supreme Court in 2020 if he were still chairman of the Judiciary Committee. qctimes.com/news/state-and…
LINDSEY GRAHAM on March 10, 2016:

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
LINDSEY GRAHAM on Oct. 3, 2018:

"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election.”

LINDSEY GRAHAM on May 17, 2020:

“You had the president of one party…and you had the Senate in…the other party [in 2016]. A situation where you've got them both would be different. I don't want to speculate, but I think appointing judges is a high priority for me in 2020."
May 28, 2020

HUGH HEWITT: [If a vacancy occurred] would successors be confirmed before the election?

LINDSEY GRAHAM: I think that would be the goal. … So if a vacancy did occur … you would see an effort by Republicans, I’m sure, to fill the vacancy.
LINDSEY GRAHAM on Jan. 13, 2019:

"If there is an opening, whether it's Ginsburg or anybody else, I will urge the president to nominate a qualified conservative … I'm going to be hell-bent to put a conservative to replace whoever steps down for whatever reason."

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INGRAHAM: Do you know for a fact?

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Special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on May 18:

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