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Its also clear that another major factor is how the court battle will play out with voters now.

That was made abundantly clear from exit polling from the 2016 election that showed that 26 of Trump voters cited Supreme Court nominations as the biggest factor in their candidate choice compared with 18 of Clinton voters.

And here, we want to focus in particular on Black voters, whose turnout tends to be critical to the success of Democrats.

Now, you could argue that Republicans had more success in making the Supreme Court a voting issue, particularly if voters - then-Republican voters had some doubts about their nominee.

They talked a lot about using the courts to stop the progress that was happening that a lot of Republican voters thought about.

On the Democratic side, we said that the Supreme Court was something that was also on the ballot.

But now we definitely know that this is going to be an issue thats going to be talked about on both sides.

And its something that all voters are absolutely paying attention to.

Do you subscribe to that theory that thats part of the reason that the Democrat didnt prevail in 2016.

But do I think that it had a huge impact on turnout I really dont.

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One of the things that I talk about a lot is we went into the 2016 presidential election without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, and that is something that definitely impacted Black voter turnout.

So I dont think that if we had had a Black woman that anything would have played out differently.

I mean, the Republican convention talked a lot about President Trumps appeal to religiously conservative voters, particularly conservative Catholics.

One speaker went so far as to say that Joe Biden isnt a real Catholic.

And it appears that at least one of his top potential nominees is a Catholic woman.

But if you get to the point where youre telling everyday Americans that if you do not believe X, Y, Z to the T of your religion, that is something that can absolutely turn people off.

You cant say that we have freedom of religion but only if you subscribe to what we subscribe to.

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