Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, has, since July 20, held the record for waiting longer than any other Supreme Court nominee in U.S. history to get a Senate hearing on his nomination. Republicans who have blocked such a hearing have long contended that the choice of a justice to replace Scalia should be left to the winner of the 2016 presidential election. Now that it looks like Hillary Clinton will likely win the election, her Republican opponent has claimed that the election is “rigged” in her favor. Donald Trump’s repeated claims—though disavowed by some Republican leaders, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan—have had an effect on public opinion. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted among 1,999 registered voters from October 13 through October 15 shows that 73 percent of Republicans now believe that widespread voter fraud could result in the election being stolen from Trump and 41 percent of all registered voters agree that widespread voter fraud is possible, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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