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Lisa Murkowski Reverses Position on Filling SCOTUS Vacancy, Won't Rule Out Vote to Confirm
PJ Media ^ | 9/23/2020 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 09/23/2020 9:18:43 AM PDT by RightGeek

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) made a stunning reversal of her position on filling the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to a report from Alaska Public Media, Murkowski now can’t rule out voting to confirm a nominee before the election.

“I know everybody wants to ask the question, ‘will you confirm the nominee?’” she said. “We don’t have a nominee yet. You and I don’t know who that is. And so I can’t confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don’t know who the nominee is.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: murkowski; scotue; senate
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To: RightGeek

Now that she sees it’s going to happen anyway......


61 posted on 09/23/2020 11:12:00 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: pfflier
Collins is down in the polls and is trying to suck up to the bull dykes and blue haired grannies that apparently determine Maine’s senate outcome.

They are going to vote against her anyway. She's better off trying to get Republicans and Moderates on board.

62 posted on 09/23/2020 11:12:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mr. K

hmmmmmm, good point.

But before the election might expose a garage full of blank ballots to theft...

...or me to accusations that I intended to mark them.


63 posted on 09/23/2020 11:13:22 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats donate to bail money. Republicans donate to scholarships. ~ throwthebumsout)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

If we got 3 to 5 Democrats to vote for the nominee, it would really take the left by surprise and I don’t think they would know how to react this close to an election.


64 posted on 09/23/2020 11:15:16 AM PDT by matt04
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To: bIlluminati

6% Libertarian, 6% other


65 posted on 09/23/2020 11:16:02 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: null and void
I'm seriously considering going apartment complex to apartment complex and removing the ballots addressed to former residents dumped in the trashcans near the mailboxes. Not to mark 'em and submit them, but to keep them from those who would.

I wouldn't open them but other than that it sounds like a good idea... What do you think Liz?

66 posted on 09/23/2020 11:21:18 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: brownsfan

my question too. Alaska is a leave me alone state and yet keeps voting for this turd


67 posted on 09/23/2020 11:21:59 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Yes, I think you got it exactly correct.


68 posted on 09/23/2020 11:22:37 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: Magnum44

this is also putting pressure on Biden Harris to come up with a plan on how to keep their socialist base, and yet still trying to appeal to blue collar ,and old Dems, and non party.
Where is your list? not going to answer
Do you support stacking the court, ? Not going to answer. Cannot even answer 2 easy questions, hell they cannot answer answer questions on what their policy is since they never talk about their policy.


69 posted on 09/23/2020 11:25:08 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: nfldgirl

Manchin isn’t a slime. He’s a Democrat only because he would have never been elected as a Republican. Now that West Virginia is Trump country, don’t be surprised if he changes parties; especially if the Senate hangs in the balance.


70 posted on 09/23/2020 11:27:13 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: dfwgator
They are going to vote against her anyway.

I know that, you know that, but career politicians will sell their souls for one more vote.

71 posted on 09/23/2020 11:27:54 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: null and void
I thought spork weasels were extinct. ;)
72 posted on 09/23/2020 11:31:58 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter; NFHale; Chode; DoughtyOne

73 posted on 09/23/2020 11:32:15 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: RightGeek

She is a very unremarkable person. The only time she gets any attention is times like these and she craves it, so expect her to flip flop back and forth and milk it for everything she can till the very end, then vote to confirm.


74 posted on 09/23/2020 11:32:42 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: manc
Where is your list? Do you support stacking the court ?

Biden and Harris can answer the questions... they don't answer because it will alienate part of their base. Here's a flash - the toady Chris Wallace won't ask either... because he's white liberal 'elite' on Biden's side. FOXNews sucks.

75 posted on 09/23/2020 11:33:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats stopped burning, rioting & looting when polls showed it wasn't popular with voters.)
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To: ifinnegan

which would be what? Again, this was a trick cigar and blew up in her face


76 posted on 09/23/2020 11:33:15 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

“Back fired on her. She just found out how unnecessary she is”

exactly ... the stupid bitch thought she’d announce her betrayal first, and everyone else would follow her lead ... she grossly miscalculated and now she’s left out in the cold ...


77 posted on 09/23/2020 11:34:11 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: fightin kentuckian

It looks like she didn’t vote.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00223#position


78 posted on 09/23/2020 11:35:45 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: outofsalt; sporkweasel
I thought spork weasels were extinct. ;)

No, not quite, just rare and precious.

Behinsd the scenes of a ZOT!

79 posted on 09/23/2020 11:47:03 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats donate to bail money. Republicans donate to scholarships. ~ throwthebumsout)
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To: RightGeek; All
I'd love to have Sarah Palin (A current or former FR who's ID is known by just a few) chime in here and give us the 411 as to what this women in all about.

Their is something bigger about her that I can't put my finger on.

She's got her hands in on a lot of sub-committies:
* Nuclear
* Li-Ion Supply Base
* and immic Rare Earth Minerals.

Yes they all pertain to an EV Revolution, but their has got to be more.

Why? Alaska is full of Rare Earths, we need them, but why does she yield so much power, their is nothing that stands out about her, what is or who is the Alaskan power players and why do they own her, or does she have a power structure all her own?

80 posted on 09/23/2020 11:51:36 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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