In 2016, people who considered SCOTUS their "most important factor" in voting picked Trump by +15.

Despite #BlackLivesMatter protests calling for reform to the justice system, liberals/progressives seem to not realize the importance of the judiciary.

👉🏻 https://www.vox.com/2018/6/29/17511088/scotus-2016-election-poll-trump-republicans-kennedy-retire https://twitter.com/axios/status/1303784016479432707
The Supreme Court was mentioned only 1 time during the 4-day Democratic convention, while "jobs and judges" has been a recurring theme in GOP campaigns.

This has been the trend for decades, not just since 2016. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-convention-court/
The DNC Refuses to Address the Elephant in the Room

The Supreme Court will be lost for a generation if Biden loses, dooming almost all progressive policy ideas. But no Democrats are talking about it.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-convention-court/
Things that liberal/progressive activists focus on more than they do about the Supreme Court and federal judiciary:

• Gender pronouns
• Race/ethnicity of Oscar nominees
• Cancelling people over old tweets
• Renaming buildings and removing statues https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/opinions/democrats-2020-campaign-strategy-supreme-court-psaki/index.html
Democrats can't keep ignoring this vital campaign issue

Jen Psaki writes that Democrats need to make the stakes of a potential Supreme Court vacancy front and center in the 2020 election. If Trump gets another judge on the highest court, the Affordable...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/opinions/democrats-2020-campaign-strategy-supreme-court-psaki/index.html
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