This has gotta be one of the dumber hopes that the WH has pinned the election on:

.@realDonaldTrump ‘s team waiting for Clarence Thomas to drop a bomb on 2020 election: Washington Post reporterhttps://t.co/62ndpblTei pic.twitter.com/VX41KB0Nlh

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 1, 2020

The political reporter told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Trump’s campaign is hoping to dangle a judicial nomination in front of Republican voters, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did in 2016 by stalling President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland.

“There are some people inside of the White house that are around this president who are hoping at this point, knowing that it may not happen, but they are hoping that there might be a Supreme Court vacancy,” Costa said. “Clarence Thomas, the justice since the early ’90s, could decide to retire.”

Imagine going to pissed off wingnuts who think Roberts and Gorsuch are apostates and saying “Give us another 4 years and we’ll put another FedSoc nominee on the bench!” Hell, at this point, there’s a very good chance that no nominee Trump could put forward would win approval if the Dems win back the Senate.