This is September. Won’t be nominated before late January. Then a bigger deal out of this than even the usual, so an even longer than usual approval process.
Don’t think so. Given how many election issues will go to SCOTUS, this needs to be an immediate appointment and priority.
The President has already said he'll nominate someone within the next few days and McConnell says the nominee will get a vote on the Senate floor. But I'm not too sure McConnell can deliver that because there might be enough RINOs to hold up the vote.