Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday called on the US Senate to refrain from confirming President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee until after the November 3 election. 

“The Senate should not act on this vacancy until after the American people select their next president and the next Congress,” Joe Biden said in a statement, shortly after Trump announced his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late liberal justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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He also appealed to the people of America to vote like their health care is on the ballot. “Today, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court — a jurist with a written track record of disagreeing with the Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act.

Vote like your health care is on the ballot — because it is,” he said.

Trump has been trying to end Obamacare “for four years,” Biden said, but twice the Supreme Court “upheld the law as constitutional.

“But even now, in the midst of a global health pandemic, the Trump Administration is asking the US Supreme Court to overturn the entire law, including its protections for people with pre-existing conditions,” Biden said.

Earlier, Democratic opponents, led by presidential candidate Joe Biden, had demanded that the Republicans hold off on replacing Ginsburg until after the November election.