Trump challenges Biden to name Supreme Court contenders like he did and says they’ll all be ‘extremely radical left’
PRESIDENT Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden to release a list of his top contenders for a spot on the Supreme Court, but said Biden won’t do it because he knows he can’t win with “extremely radical left” picks.
Trump earlier in the day released his short list for any potential Supreme Court vacancies, and, in a Wednesday night phone interview with Sean Hannity, the president said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden won’t do the same because the names wouldn’t be acceptable to the voting public.
“Outside of war and peace, the president’s job is to select Supreme Court judges,” Trump said Wednesday night. “I put up a list of 20 or 25, and will only pick from this list.”
Trump released a similar list before the last election, which he says is a good precedent to follow and he credits the move with helping him win the election. Trump said he knows why Biden has yet to do the same.
“People can’t vote for him. He’ll come up with far radical left judges. Far to the left, revolutionary in a sense I think,” the president said. “He’s not able to name Democrat judges in the middle someplace or where normal people are.”
“He’ll have extremely radical left judges and he won’t be elected if he has to do that,” the president continued.
The list Trump released earlier in the day included sitting Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.
The list also includes Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, Kate Todd, a deputy assistant to the president, and a number of lower court judges.
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Trump went on to blast Biden in the interview, claiming he’s “not in control of himself” because leftwing aides “control him totally.”
“I don’t think he’s electable and he’s got a real problem with that,” Trump said, claiming the former vice president is puppet of the left.