Chuck Todd just explained the prior positions of the Senate on election year nominations by only citing Republicans opposing the idea and not all of the Democrats who demanded it. Such election year nominations have occurred 29 times in history.

...Since he just referenced Ginsburg, it would seem relevant to note her position in 2016 on whether the Senate should vote on a nominee in an election year: "That's their job. There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year."

...With Sen. Barrasso, Todd asked again "what precedent?" in disbelief. It is not Todd's objections about hypocrisy that bothers me, but the absolute refusal to recognize that Democrats also took the opposite position and that such nominations have occurred repeatedly in history.