‘Voters Deserve an Answer’! Tapper Grills Biden Spox on Court-Packing

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 11, 2020
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After Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s Friday declaration that Americans “don’t deserve” to know his position on packing the Supreme Court, some in the liberal media have had enough of his dodging and contempt for the American people. After ABC chief White House correspondent Jon Karl bucked the narrative on Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper followed suit and grilled Biden campaign coordinator Kate Bedingfield and shouting: “Of course, voters deserve an answer on his position, on every issue!

Their State of the Union interview started out pretty favorably for the Biden campaign with Tapper allowing Bedingfield to go off on the Trump campaign over the canceled second debate. But things took a turn when Tapper pressed her on Biden’s false claim that President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett was unconstitutional.

“I want to get the idea of adding justices to the court in a second. But he said, ‘it's not constitutional what they are doing.’ How is it not constitutional what they are doing,” he wondered. Bedingfield responded by pointing to polls saying that people wanted the winner of the election to nominate, but Tapper confronted her on how the Constitution worked and how the Senate was an elected body.

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