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"If you believe 22 percent is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that," Fauci told the Republican senator.

Governor Larry Hogan said pushing through Trump's nominee would be "a mistake," adding that the Senate shouldn't play "partisan games" with the process.

Joe Biden's campaign dismissed the report as an attempt "to bail out Donald Trump's reelection campaign."

Both presidential candidates were backed by 47 percent of the Southern state's voters, while 4 percent said they were still undecided.

"I think it is particularly important that the Senate take it up and confirm this nomination before the election," the Texas Republican said.

"I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia," the Republican senator from Alaska said.

"You stated a pretty firm principle about Merrick Garland: 'It's wrong to deny voters a chance to way in,'" host Chris Wallace pointed out to the Republican senator from Arkansas.

"Preserving the institution of the Senate should be paramount to any political gain," Flake tweeted.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder accused Republicans of "blatant hypocrisy" for moving to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death so close to the presidential election.

"Are all Republicans now lawless?" Eric Idle tweeted on Friday about the advertisement. "Whatever happened to America?"

Majority Leader McConnell, the longest-serving senator from Kentucky in history, first entered the Senate in 1985.

"There is a compromise if the speaker [of the House] is willing to move forward," Steven Mnuchin said.

Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly also leads GOP Senator Martha McSally by a significant margin in the southwestern state.

In order to take control of the Senate, Democrats would need to maintain all their current seats while gaining four more in the upcoming election.

The Watergate journalist said Trump "is putting his own narrow presidential re-election efforts in front of the safety, health and well-being of the people of the United States."

New recordings reported by journalist Bob Woodward reveal Trump saying he "always" downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said there are 20 Senate Republicans who are done giving out federal relief funds for the coronavirus pandemic.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are set to unveil their own COVID-19 relief package proposal and are set to hold a vote on it this week.

People over 65 are considered high risk for the new coronavirus and McCarthy told Axios concerns over voting in person could deter them from casting ballots at all.

"You could either be a John McCain Republican or a Donald Trump Republican. But you've got to choose," the military veteran and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor said Friday.

"In this moment of great national crisis, we need to elect a leader matched to the moment," former Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman said.

A new poll shows that more than half of Republicans believe that the far-right conspiracy theory has truth to it.

Rick Snyder suggested that the good economy during Trump's first three years in office came from being "lucky" and called his tax reform "a failure."

Beleaguered as they are, the two leaders' mastery of social media is giving them a competitive edge over domestic rivals.

The image, which also featured the words "p**s on BLM," was posted on the Florida-based East Lee County Republicans Facebook page.

Democrats would need to win at least four Republican seats while maintaining all their current seats to take control of the upper chamber of Congress.

A supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory has won her House primary in Massachusetts after facing no challenger.

The best recent poll out of Kentucky for the Senate majority leader's Democratic challenger showed her down by 3 percentage points.

"No one can question my credentials as a Republican," Michael Steele wrote in an op-ed denouncing Trump and the GOP lawmakers supporting him.

The final night of the RNC closed with a huge firework display and a performance by opera singer Christoper Macchio.