Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday that it wasn’t important to him if the Senate refused to schedule a vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination.
Obama said Saturday that he would nominate a replacement to Justice Antonin Scalia, who died at the age of 79.
Bush said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he thought Obama’s nomination would be “out of the mainstream” and rejected by the Senate. CNN host Dana Bash asked Bush if the Republicans should schedule a vote on the nomination.
“It’s up to Mitch McConnell,” Bush said. “It is not important to me.”
McConnell has suggested that the nomination would not be voted on until a new President takes office.