Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Could a Supreme Court Fight Save Trump?

There’s little reason to think the president’s latest gambit will win over new voters — if in fact that’s the goal.

July 2, 2020 at 11:35 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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There’s something very appropriate about Donald Trump’s latest idea for saving his campaign: a fight over a Supreme Court nominee. Apparently the president is eager to have one.