They could just "delay it till the election" get the increased voter turnout and then a week after the election fill the seat with a far right nominee regardless of who won. "The radical left committed mass voter fraud by mail!!! Since I am the legitimate winner of this election I will be picking a new justice VERY promptly!"
there was a tweet that got deleted by twitter so I legit don't know if this is a bit or not. His PR video was like on degree of malarkey off from his straight up saying that