Republicans are quietly warning that the true consequence of losing the Senate could be one that shapes the makeup of courts and the law for years to come. While Republican candidates and surrogates on the campaign trail are warning of a rise in socialism and a return to Biden-era policy should Democrats flip Congress this cycle, some are pushing a different message: if Democrats win the Senate, they’ll block future Supreme Court nominees. "I think the key over the next 34 days is bringing home Republicans.
And I think it's important to remind some of these Republicans who are not energized yet that the Supreme Court's on the ballot," Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital. BATTLE OVER DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ERUPTS AS PUSH TO STOP CHANGING CLOCKS HITS SENATE WALL Daines, who chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in 2024, played a key role in flipping the Senate two years ago.
That election was dominated by pocketbook issues, much like this midterm cycle, and Democrats have pounced upon that message. But the Supreme Court and the implications of the balance of power in the Senate are a message Daines contended the GOP wasn't pushing enough. "I mentioned that to the White House.
And it's — that's not a silver bullet, it's a silver buckshot," of several issues Republicans should be talking about, Daines said. If Trump doesn’t have a GOP majority in the upper chamber, he said, "if we have a vacancy, Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, who knows — we could not, President Trump could not move through a Supreme Court justice." DEMS HAND GOP FRESH MIDTERM WEAPON BY OPPOSING WIDELY USED VOTER ID The high court is aging, with conservative stalwarts on the bench, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, 78, and Samuel Alito, 76, nearing octogenarian status. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 72, and Chief Justice John Roberts, 71, aren’t that far behind.
"The Supreme Court as we know it would cease to exist under Troy Jackson, Abdul El-Sayed, and James Talarico, who are hell-bent on replacing it with a bloated, lawless body designed to advance Democrats’ socialist agenda," NRSC spokeswoman Bernadette Breslin told Fox News Digital. Speculation has swirled over Alito after NPR earlier this year published a report declaring his retirement before swiftly retracting it. Alito added some fuel to that fire, however, during an interview with CBS earlier this month.
When asked if he was considering retirement, he admitted to considering it earlier this year, and noted that "it's something I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term." DEMOCRATS THINK A BLUE WAVE IS BUILDING. HERE ARE 3 FORCES THAT COULD STOP IT Democrats haven’t been keen to support several of Trump’s nominees for a variety of positions throughout the government over the last two years. Notably, Republicans went nuclear last year to change the Senate’s rules to move through bundles of nominees that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats were blocking.
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