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Sen. John Kennedy to Dem colleague on Barrett criticism: ‘Sell crazy somewhere else’

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., bluntly criticized Democrats who are claiming that Amy Coney Barrett will certainly vote to knock down Obamacare if given the opportunity to do so as a Supreme Court justice.

Kennedy appeared on “Fox News Sunday” immediately after Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan had made that very accusation, but Kennedy would have none of it.

SCALIA: DEMS WILL USE OBAMACARE AS ‘RED HERRING’ IN ATTACKING SCOTUS PICK BARRETT

“Sen. Stabenow is my colleague, and I consider Debbie a friend, so I say this gently: Sell crazy somewhere else; we’re all stocked up here,” Kennedy said. “Unless Debbie’s clairvoyant, I don’t think she knows how the nominee’s going to vote or any other member of the United States Supreme Court.”

Kennedy said Stabenow’s claim illustrates how Democrats and Republicans view the high court differently.

“My Democratic friends think that the Supreme Court ought to be a mini-Congress,” he said. “They don’t even need to hear cases; they already know how they’re going to vote. And that’s part of the problem. That’s not how I view the appropriate role of the Supreme Court. And I don’t think that’s how it operates.”

SEN. BLACKBURN: DEMS’ ‘PETTY’ ATTEMPTS TO ‘DEMONIZE’ AMY CONEY BARRETT SHOW WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT CONSERVATIVE WOMEN

Kennedy then addressed the controversy over Republicans in the Senate wanting to move forward with Barrett’s confirmation process, despite deliberately refusing to do the same for Merrick Garland when President Barack Obama nominated him months before the 2016 election.

“Here’s — as best as I can tell – here’s the rule: when the Democrats are in charge of the process, they do what they think is right consistent with the Constitution; when the Republicans are in charge of the process, they do what they think is right,” he said. “And I think that’s what our founders intended; I think our founders intended elections to have consequences, and when they send people to Washington of a particular party they expect them to represent their voters.”

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Kennedy claimed that if Democrats were in charge of the Senate, they, too, would do what they want regardless of what they may have said in the past.

“If the shoe were on the other foot, then I can assure you [Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer would do what the Republicans are doing right now,” he said.

Dem Sen. Stabenow insists Barrett’s ‘writings’ show she would oppose Obamacare

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., claimed that if Amy Coney Barrett becomes the next Supreme Court justice, she would cast a deciding vote to eliminate Obamacare — but when asked for evidence to support her assertion, she provided nothing specific.

In a “Fox News Sunday” appearance, Stabenow referenced Barrett’s “writings” but would not elaborate.

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“For me, this is all about being in the middle of a health pandemic — once-in-a-lifetime health pandemic,” Stabenow said, “and it’s very clear from her writings — multiple writings — that she will be the vote that takes away health care for millions of Americans, including people, 130 million people and counting, with pre-existing conditions.”

When host Brit Hume asked her to explain the writings she was referring to, Stabenow referred to comments made by the show’s previous guest, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.

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Stabenow said that President Trump’s goal has been to do away with the Affordable Care Act, and claimed that he would only nominate someone who would rule they way he wanted on the matter. Current litigation over Obamacare is expected to come before the Supreme Court for oral arguments a week after the election in November.

“The No. 1 priority of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been to take away people’s health care,” Dabenow said, adding that Trump “certainly has given every indication that he wants the Supreme Court to act in favor of the case that he has supported.”

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“Common sense will tell you he’s going to put somebody on the court who has given all kinds of clues and writings about this issue,” she added.

Hume again pressed Stabenow on which of Barrett’s writings lead her to believe that she is an automatic vote against Obamacare. Stabenow would not say, merely stating that Democrats “will lay this out in judiciary hearings.”

Trump calls for Biden to take a drug test before upcoming presidential debate

President Trump said Sunday that he demanded his Democratic opponent Joe Biden take a drug test either directly before or after the upcoming presidential debate this week.

Trump, who tweeted the message shortly before 10 a.m., said he would also agree to a drug test if Biden agrees. The president said drugs could only explain Biden’s uneven debate performances in the past.

“I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take one also. His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???” Trump wrote.

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The remarks come after Biden’s team recently told The Guardian they’re hoping for a repeat of his stand-out, high energy 2012 debate performance against then-vice presidential opponent Paul Ryan, which helped reinvigorate President Obama’s election campaign at the time. Biden’s record since then has been marred by repeated verbal gaffes during his 2020 presidential campaign tour.

In an exclusive interview with “Fox & Friends,” which aired earlier Sunday, Trump said he was preparing every day for the upcoming debate against Biden to be held Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio.

“When you’re president, you sort of see everything that they’re going to be asking. And they may disagree with you, but we’ve done a great job. We created the greatest economy in history,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Pete Hegseth after nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “And now it’s coming back. We closed it. We saved millions and millions of lives by doing what I did. And now we’re bringing it back.”

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Biden has called on the Senate not to act on Trump’s Supreme Court nomination until after voters head to the polls in November. He also has ramped up attacks against Barrett, who he described “as a jurist with a written track record of disagreeing with the court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act.”

“In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump is trying to force through the confirmation of a Justice who will help him destroy Obamacare,” Biden tweeted Saturday. “Health care is at stake. Protections for pre-existing conditions are at stake. We can’t let them win.”

The first presidential debate will be moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace and will cover both candidates’ records, the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, race and violence in cities, and the integrity of the election.

In several follow-up tweets Sunday, Trump also responded to attacks from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and said a day earlier he would not confirm Barrett or any nominee proposed “as part of this illegitimate sham process, barely one month before an election as Americans are already casting their votes.”

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Trump said Blumenthal repeatedly lied about serving in the Vietnam War, calling him a “senatorial JOKE,” and also railed against Mike Bloomberg for “bribing ex-prisoners to go out and vote for Sleepy Joe.” Before ended his tweetstorm, Trump declared: “Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative if it is terminated in the Supreme Court. Would be a big WIN for the USA!”

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

Sen. Blackburn: Dems’ ‘petty’ attempts to ‘demonize’ Amy Coney Barrett show what they think about conservative women

Democrats are willing to “demonize” Amy Coney Barrett in an effort to derail President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee out of spite, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said Sunday.

Blackburn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will approve the nominee, made the comment on “Fox & Friends” after two of her Democratic colleagues said they will not meet with Barrett, characterizing her as an “extreme jurist who will decimate health care.”

“I think it is very petty of them not to even open the door and sit down and have a conversation,” Blackburn said, “but … this is how the left treats conservative women.”

BLACKBURN: BARRETT GETS DEM OPPOSITION BECAUSE SHE’S A CONSERVATIVE WOMAN OF FAITH

Democrats repeatedly indicated that they will oppose Barrett’s nomination, citing her conservative credentials which they see as a threat to health care and abortion rights, while also arguing that it is too close to Election Day for Trump to nominate a justice.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who joins Blackburn on the Judiciary Committee and will play a role in confirmation hearings, said he would oppose her confirmation “as I would any nominee proposed as part of this illegitimate sham process, barely one month before an election as Americans are already casting their votes.”

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, also said that she would not meet with Barrett when asked on CNN, although she said she would question her at the hearing.

“I will not be meeting with her, I will take the opportunity to question her when she is under oath,” she said.

Republicans are not too concerned by Democrats not meeting with Barrett, having indicated they have the votes, both on the Judiciary Committee and in the Senate chamber to confirm Barrett along party lines before the election, Blackburn said.

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“We know they’re going to try to demonize Judge Barrett. We know that they are going to try to say that she is out of the mainstream because that is the type thing that they do,” Blackburn said, “but we are going to begin our hearings.

“We will start at the Judiciary Committee with our opening statements,” she said. “We will follow it with testimony and questions on 30-minute rounds and then 20-minute rounds. We will hear from outside groups. We will vote her out of the committee. And then,” Blackburn vowed, “we intend to be on the floor with her nomination. They will not slow us down.”

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

Scalia: Dems will use Obamacare as ‘red herring’ in attacking SCOTUS pick Barrett

Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia warned that Democrats will use Obamacare to attack Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, but he said there’s no substance to the claims.

Barrett has criticized the Supreme Court decision that ruled that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act was legal because the penalty for not having insurance was considered a tax, and thus fell under a specific power of Congress.

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“It’s a red herring,” Scalia told “Fox News Sunday” while discussing Barrett’s qualifications. “I think it reflects a bit of frustration on the part of the Democrats on how they might attack her nomination.”

Barrett has spoken against Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision on Obamacare, but Scalia noted that this was before she became a federal appeals court judge, let alone a Supreme Court nominee. He also said that whether or not the mandate was legal when first instituted is “not a question that will be before the court.”

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Ongoing litigation over Obamacare does involve the individual mandate, but the current challenge does not question whether the penalty was a tax when the law was first passed — rather, it questions whether it can still be considered a tax now that it has been lowered to zero.

“The question of whether it’s a tax or not is moot, it’s gone. It’s a totally different case,” Scalia said. “The fact that this is being raised shows that Democrats are casting about for anything by which they might seek to oppose an exceptional nominee.”

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Another avenue of attack that Scalia predicted Democrats may take is Barrett’s devout Catholic faith, which came up a number of times during her circuit court confirmation hearing in 2017.

Scalia, the son of late Justice Antonin Scalia, said he has known Barrett for years and that she is “a very respected scholar” and a “thoughtful jurist.”

Most memorable televised debate moments in U.S. political history

As President Trump and Joe Biden prepare for their first highly-anticipated debate on Tuesday, here’s a look back at some of the most memorable — and perhaps embarrassing — televised debate moments in U.S. political history:

Nixon, not ready for his close-up

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Sept. 26, 1960

It was the first nationally televised debate. Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, reeling off a severe bout of the flu that had left him hospitalized, refused makeup to improve his pale appearance and used a handkerchief to wipe off sweat numerous times. Sen. John F. Kennedy appeared healthy, tanned and comfortable on stage.

The Democrat had been an underdog at the time, but he soon capitalized off his youth and vigor, coining the slogan, “Who’s seasoned through and through/but not so dog-gone seasoned that he won’t try something new.”

Poland freed?

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Oct. 6, 1976

At his second debate, President Gerald Ford asserted: “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” Asked to clarify, the Republican said he doesn’t believe the Poles and others consider themselves “dominated” by the Soviet Union.

Democrat Jimmy Carter fired back, “I’d like to see Mr. Ford convince Polish-Americans and Czech-Americans and Hungarian-Americans that those countries don’t live under the supervision and control of the Soviet Union.”

Ford’s comments were considered a major gaffe.

“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”

MODERATOR CHRIS WALLACE SELECTS TOPICS FOR FIRST TRUMP-BIDEN DEBATE

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Oct. 21, 1984

President Ronald Reagan, 73 at the time, had been asked if his age would hinder his ability to be commander in chief.

The witty response, which even drew a laugh from Democratic challenger Walter Mondale, 56 — became an instant classic.

Dukakis’ crime response

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Oct. 13, 1988

Democrat Michael Dukakis, branded weak on crime by Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush, was asked by moderator Bernard Shaw if he would favor putting a man to death who had hypothetically raped and murdered his wife.

Dukakis responded: “No, I don’t, Bernard.”

“I think you know that I’ve opposed the death penalty during all of my life,” Dukakis added.

“Binders full of women”

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Oct. 16, 2012

Asked about gender pay equity, Republican Mitt Romney recalled his time as governor of Massachusetts. “I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men,” Romney said. “I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ And they brought us whole binders full of women.”

At a campaign stop later, Democrat Barack Obama seized on his riival’s comment: “I’ve got to tell you, we don’t have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women.”

“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed.”

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: Oct. 22, 2012

Obama, the incumbent, made the sacrastic comment while debating Romney.

“I think Gov. Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works,” Obama said. “We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back”

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: October 2012

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” Obama told Romney, in one of the biggest zingers of the debate. The president was trying to dismiss Romney’s assertion that Russia was America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

The line didn’t age well.

“Only Rosie O’Donnell”

DEBATE: GOP primary

WHEN: 2016.

“One of the things people love about you is you speak your mind, and you don’t use a politician’s filter,” debate moderator Megyn Kelly said to Trump at the beginning of the debate. “However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women. You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.'”

Trump interrupted Kelly and quipped, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” The crowd roared with applause and laughter.

It was the night Republicans realized what Trump lacked in political experience he made up for show-stopping wise cracks, and they’d be hard-pressed to outshine his decades of reality TV experience.

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Trump tells Clinton she’d be in jail if he was in charge.

DEBATE: Presidential

WHEN: 2016

“It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump isn’t in charge of our country,” Clinton said.

“Because you’d be in jail,” Trump responded.

He had told his opponent if he was elected he’d get his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor “to look into your situation.”

“People… their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you’ve done,” Trump said.

Debate flashback: Trump and Clinton’s most memorable 2016 moments

As President Trump and Joe Biden gear up for the first of three presidential debates next week, here’s a flashback to memorable moments of the 2016 debates, when Trump sparred with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

# 7 – “Why not?”

In typical Trump fashion, he gave a tongue-in-cheek response to Clinton during the first debate that drew an emphatic crowd reaction.

Clinton said she had “a feeling that by the end of this evening I’m going to be blamed for everything that’s ever happened.”

Replied Trump: “Why not?”

After the audience erupted with hooting and hollering, Clinton repeated the phrase back to Trump and waved her hand in the air with a show of resignation.

#6 – Trump promises to “bring back jobs,” accuses Bill Clinton of devastation

During the first debate, Trump and Clinton got into a heated exchange about the economy and jobs.

“Excuse me, I will bring back jobs. You can’t bring back jobs. Your husband signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry,” Trump charged.

“That’s only your opinion,” Clinton responded.

Trump then cited specific states that he said were experiencing economic ruin, exacerbated by policies initiated by then-President Bill Clinton.

“You go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania — you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation.”

#5- Anderson Cooper scolds Trump for talking over Clinton

Trump was chastised by CNN moderator Anderson Cooper during the second debate for talking while Clinton was trying to speak.

“Please allow her to respond,” Cooper said sternly. “She didn’t talk while you talked.”

“That’s right, I didn’t,” Clinton agreed.

Trump fired back: “Because you have nothing to say.”

#4- Trump calls Clinton a “nasty woman”

During the second debate, Clinton was outlining her plan to raise taxes on the wealthy. She said people such as herself — and Trump — would have to pay more, “assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it.”

Trump shook his head and interrupted her to say, “Such a nasty woman.”

#3 – Trump accuses Bill Clinton of abusing women

During the final debate, with his back still against the wall from the damaging “Access Hollywood” tape, Trump flipped the script and attacked Bill Clinton for infidelity and sexual assault.

Prior to the start of the debate, Trump adviser Steve Bannon convinced the candidate to bring in several high-profile Clinton accusers to put the spotlight back on Democrats.

“If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine are words, his was action. What he’s done to women — there’s never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation, that’s been so abusive to women,” he said.

Trump then pivoted to a leaked tape of Hillary Clinton laughing about getting a client off during her time as an attorney, for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl.

“Her client she represented — got him off, and she’s seen laughing on two separate occasions. Laughing at the girl who was raped,” Trump said.

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#2 – Trump promises to have special prosecutor investigate Clinton

Trump was fighting for his political life at the start of the third debate. The “Access Hollywood” tape had been released, leading many pundits and politicians to think Trump had finally reached “the beginning of the end.”

One moment that helped swing the pendulum back in Trump’s favor was when he promised to appoint a special prosecutor if elected and lock up Clinton for corruption related to her missing emails while at the State Department.

“It’s awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Clinton countered.

Trump fired back: “Because you’d be in jail.”

The jab was met with cheering and laughter from the audience.

#1 – If you haven’t got anything nice to say…

In the final town hall-style debate, Trump and Clinton were asked to say something nice about each another.

An audience member posed the question: “Would either of you name one positive thing that you respect in one another?”

“I respect his children,” Clinton said, answering first. “His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald. I don’t agree with nearly anything else he says or does, but I do respect that.”

Trump praised his rival’s grit and determination.

“I will say this about Hillary — she doesn’t quit. She doesn’t give up. I respect that. I tell it like it is. She’s a fighter,” he said.

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The first debate between Trump and Biden, moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, will take place Tuesday night at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland..

The format calls for six 15-minute-long segments – with each segment dedicated to a specific topic.

The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates said topics selected by Wallance include the looming Supreme Court battle, coronavirus pandemic response, economy, and rioting in American cities.

Pompeo claims Trump foreign policy has made world safer, Americans’ lives ‘more secure’

The idea that President Trump is “anti-military” and is suspicious of U.S. intelligence agencies is an untrue “media narrative,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” in an interview airing Sunday night.

“There’s an effort underway before this election to try and paint the president of the United States as anti-military, and it is shocking to me, absolutely shocking to me,” host Mark Levin told Pompeo. “I know him, you know him. He adores the military. As you go around the world and you see our military personnel, are they proud of this country? Are they proud of this president? Are they proud to see you?”

“Absolutely. Every day, always …” Pompeo answered. “This week, I’ll head to Souda Bay in Greece to see some more of our armed forces. I am confident that they will welcome this administration.”

Pompeo, who spent the first 15 months of the Trump administration as CIA director, recalled traveling with the president to agency headquarters in Langley, Va., the day after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017.

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“The [mainstream media] storyline was, ‘The president hates the intelligence community. He despises them. He doesn’t trust them.’ … On a Saturday morning, after the inauguration, hundreds and hundreds of intelligence professionals came out and cheered this president,” the secretary recalled.

“They cheered this president because they knew he was going to select a CIA director that was going to give them the authority to do what it is they needed to do to perform their mission. That’s what these young patriots … that’s what they want,” Pompeo added.

“They joined the intelligence community, they joined the military, to go out and be able to use their power in a way that delivered good outcomes for the American people.”

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Earlier, Levin asked if Pompeo thought the mainstream media understood the administration’s foreign policy strategy and accomplishments.

“I couldn’t tell you if they understand it,” Pompeo answered. “If they do, it’s willful deceit to the American people in [terms of] how they speak about this. I’ve watched the accomplishments we’ve achieved. I could tick off half a dozen here as we sit.

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The secretary of state cited Trump’s actions against Iran, particularly “the strike against Qassem Soleimani that changed the Middle East,” and in support of NATO — claiming the alliance “is stronger as a direct result of what President Trump and our team has done.”

“President Trump has grabbed the right end of the stick on these problem sets and made America more prosperous and benefited the world by doing that,” Pompeo went on. “We don’t hear that story very often in the traditional media outlets, whether that’s The Washington Post or The New York Times or wherever it may be, but I’m confident that the American people will come to see that the world is safer and their lives are more secure as a result of the way President Trump has done it.”

Trump tells ‘Fox & Friends’ he wanted to choose a textualist for Supreme Court

President Trump told “Fox & Friends” co-host Pete Hegseth that he thinks his nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will be a textualist.

“Mostly, I’m looking for somebody that can interpret the Constitution as written,” he said during the exclusive one-on-one interview following the nomination, set to air Sunday at 6 a.m. ET. “We say it all the time and [Judge Amy Coney Barrett] is very strong on that.”

Barrett said Saturday in accepting the nomination that she has the same judicial philosophy as the late Justice Antonin Scalia, which is to “apply the law as written.”

AMY COHEN BARRETT ACCEPTS SUPREME COURT NOMINATION, PLEDGES TO ‘FAITHFULLY AND IMPARTIALLY’ DISCHARGE DUTIES

If Barrett gets confirmed by the Senate, then it will be the president’s third nominee since he was inaugurated.

It’s not just the Supreme Court on which the president will have a lasting effect, but the lower courts, as well.

“By the end of the term, we’ll have almost 300 federal judges and Court of Appeals judges, which is a record. So we will have had a great impact on the court system going forward,” Trump said.

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Trump has publicly pressured Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to release his own list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Biden will have a chance to respond to Trump on Tuesday in the first presidential debate.

Fox News’ Chris Wallace will moderate the debate, which will cover both candidates’ records, the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, race and violence in cities, and the integrity of the election.

The president said he has been preparing every day.

“When you’re president, you sort of see everything that they’re going to be asking. And they may disagree with you, but we’ve done a great job. We created the greatest economy in history,” Trump told Hegseth. “And now it’s coming back. We closed it. We saved millions and millions of lives by doing what I did. And now we’re bringing it back.”

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Several Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have said that Biden shouldn’t debate Trump, but Biden has rejected those calls, saying he’ll “fact check” Trump himself.

Watch Pete Hegseth’s entire interview with President Trump Sunday on “Fox & Friends” at 6 a.m. ET.

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