We really should listen to the expertise of a constitutional scholar. I one hundred percent agree with President Obama. Obama said, "When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination... There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That's not in the Constitution text."
Well, Biden disagrees with you. You should take it up with him. Biden in 2016: "I would go forward with the confirmation process as chairman. Even a few months before a presidential election... just as the Constitution requires."
These kind of threats however, imo will swing the undecided vote towards Trump even more so. Here's the thing, Trump is out there giving two hour rock concerts. I watched the video of last night's rally. He was not even using the prompter, it was two hours of Trump being Trump. He was in rare form. There is not a damn thing wrong with that man's brain. He was dropping names of people he's dealt with in the last 3 years, calling out folks in the audience by name, describing in detail different events he was privy to. And yeah he does the adhd thing where he goes off on a tangent to make a joke, but he came back to the original point every time, even after several minutes. His energy level was off the charts. And the crowd loved it. They fed each other. Whether one likes what he says or not, or they think its bs, that's not the point... Here's the point. Actually two points. One, anyone with an open mind, ie an undecided voter will watch both candidates. They are going to see a high energy Trump out there orating and joking for 2 hours energizing a crowd with enthusiasm... vs an opponent who barely fills a high school gym whose audience has to stand in these large circles painted on the floor while Joe can barely remember what state he's in or any other damn thing. Trump is ad-lib'ing like George Carlin in his prime.. and Joe is squinting to see the prompter to know what his answer should be. So with that in mind, point #2. These undecided voters are not extremists. The things going on within the Democrat Party are scary af in many ways. They are going to put two and two together and see Joe as... basically... a brain dead puppet. Result: pinch your nose and vote for Trump because at least we know what we've got. Not so with Joe. Maybe 10 years ago, but not now. So just like everything else and just like Treefrog has pointed out a million times... be careful. In my opinion however, even without this latest development, the stuff I wrote above would be the case anyway. Fence voters might have voted for a more lucid Joe, but I don't think they're gonna vote for the person I'm seeing. Yeah he rode a bike. Bfd. He's in good shape physically for sure, but there's so much more to it than that. The Joe I'm seeing is not up for the job. That will scare swing voters because it leaves a very high degree of uncertainty and they sure as hell don't want a party that allows court houses to burn and wants to let hoodlums run rampant. The DNC has put up the wrong candidate. If Trump continues to go hard with his rallies in these battleground states... Joes gonna lose. I'm just calling it like I see it and I keep a very open mind and take it all in. My game is predicting future events.