Bad take. If Biden had replaced Garland he would've immediately given his opponents red meat and ammunition for them to scream that he was on a witch hunt. The narrative would've been that he was "replacing the AG because Garland found Trump innocent/didn't give Biden the results he wanted."
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Dems: "Oh no, we can't do THAT. Absolutely not. Rs might say bad things about us."
Rs: "Ds won't call us out because they're weak. Even if they do call us out, we don't care. We're going to do it anyway."