Cotton On Filling RBG Seat: Democrat Who Voted For Kavanaugh Won Re-Election In 2018, 4 Who Voted Against Lost

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued on Sunday that Republicans were fulfilling a mandate from voters by moving forward with replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.

“In 2014, the American people elected a Republican majority to the Senate to put the brakes on President Obama’s judicial nominations,” Cotton said during an interview on Fox News. “In 2018, we had a referendum on this question, just a month before the 2018 midterms. We had the vote on Justice Kavanaugh. There could not have been a clearer mandate because the American people didn’t just re-elect Republicans, they expanded our majority. They defeated four Democratic senators who voted against Justice Kavanaugh. They re-elected the one Democratic senator who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh.”