2020 is not 2024, so it’s not the same as what the republicans did. The idea is that the president is a lame duck so we are positive there will be a new president, who will have their own pick, and it lets the electorate decide which candidate they want to do the picking.
In 2020, one of the candidates will be the person who already picked the court nominee, and will have been elected to do just that.
Thought Lyndsey was going to chair in 2019. Told Democrat members he was going to remember what they tried to do to Kavenaugh.