Thread by @SenBooker

We’re just 22 days away from Election Day—in the middle of an ongoing election, when millions of people have already started voting—@SenateGOP are afraid of the truth: that they might not be able to get away with their Supreme Court nominee after the American people have spoken.

Senate Republicans know that the American people don’t want the Affordable Care Act to be overturned. They know that even the majority of Republicans support provisions of the ACA like protecting people with pre-existing conditions.

Senate Republicans know that the majority of Americans don’t want Roe v. Wade to be overturned—that the majority of Americans don’t want to see abortion criminalized. But that’s why we’re here today. Because Senate Republicans know the American people don’t want this.

Senate Republicans don’t want to wait and hear from Americans in this election because they already know the American people don’t want this. When it comes to the ACA, they know because they’ve tried—in the Senate, in the House, between the two, over 70 failed attempts.

Now the Trump Administration is trying to take away health care from millions of Americans in the courts. That is why we are here today. That’s #WhatsAtStake.

The American people should know: Republicans in Washington have been trying to take away your health coverage for over 10 years. Again and again they’ve tried, and again and again, they’ve failed.

In the middle of a deadly pandemic, in the middle of an ongoing election, Senate Republicans have found a nominee in Judge Barrett who they know will do what they couldn’t do—subvert the will of the American people & overturn the ACA, overturn Roe v. Wade. That’s #WhatsAtStake.

It’s very simple. @SenateGOP know the American people don’t want this, but they don’t care. Because they only have a small window of opportunity to cheat the system & betray what Americans want—so they’re desperately rushing to finish this process before Americans finish voting.

Nothing about this is normal. Nothing about this is right. Nothing about this is just. This election is ongoing. The American people should decide who gets to nominate our country’s next Supreme Court Justice.

I will not be voting to confirm Judge Barrett’s nomination.