McConnell pledges to bring Trump's SCOTUS pick up for a vote

death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday cast an immediate spotlight on vacancy on high court, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to bring President Donald Trump’s minee to a vote with just over six weeks before election.

McConnell, in a statement released just over an hour after Ginsburg’s death was anunced, declared unequivocally that Trump’s minee would receive a vote, even though Republican-controlled Senate did t give President Barack Obama’s pick a vote in months ahead of 2016 election.

death was poised to upend presidential election, furr stirring passions on a deeply divided nation as campaign pushed into its stretch run.

Trump took st for a Minnesota rally a few minutes before Ginsburg’s death was anunced. He spoke for more than 90 minutes, never mentioning it, apparently t alerted to development.

But he did say that whomever was elected in vember would have ability to potentially fill several Supreme vacancies, declaring, “This is going to be most important election in history of our country and we have to get it right.”

Democratic minee Joe Biden, returning to Delaware from his own campaign stop in Minnesota, did t immediately release a statement on death or vacancy.