Read the full speech here: http://nyti.ms/1QwCT7T .   "majority of his predecessors" refers to this (p. 39): "six Supreme Court vacancies have occurred _in the summer or fall_ of a Presidential election year... In four of these six cases--in 1800, 1828, 1864, and 1956--the
President himself withheld making a nomination until after the election
was held."  Biden specifically excludes vacancies arising before the summer.

Biden also never made the bogus "give people a voice" argument, as if the last presidential election didn't.

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