- MSNBC host Chris Matthews sounded the alarm for Democrats after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would retire on Wednesday.
- Matthews referenced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s move in 2016 to stall President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
- “Democrats owe it to their party, their principles, and to their own survival, to do to Mitch what Mitch did to them,” Matthews said. “If this strikes anyone as a manifesto from me, so be it. But it is in truth, a statement of political reality.”
MSNBC host Chris Matthews sounded the alarm for Democrats and urged them to resist Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would retire on Wednesday.
“It’s time for Democrats to play hardball,” Matthews said during his opening monologue Wednesday night. “There are times to fight and this is one of them.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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