FILE: U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in their first 2020 presidential campaign debate held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. Morry Gash/Pool via REUTERS

Trump, Biden clash over Supreme Court vacancy

Politics

The first face-off for President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is coming over a clash concerning a president's prerogative to put push through an election-year Supreme Court nominee.

WATCH: Trump, Biden square off in first presidential debate

Trump says during a debate Tuesday night in Cleveland that Republicans "won the election and therefore we have the right to choose" Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Trump added that he felt Democrats "wouldn't even think about not doing it" if given the chance to nominate a justice with just weeks until the election.

Biden and other Democrats have decried Trump's nomination of a new justice given Republicans' refusal to consider President Barack Obama's selection following the 2016 death of Antonin Scalia. Biden didn't mention that during the debate, however.

Biden says that Barrett seems like "a very fine person" but that her nomination after "tens of thousands of people have already voted" was troubling.

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