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Biden Responds To Trump's Supreme Court Pick: Video Replay

The Democratic presidential nominee said President Donald Trump sees Supreme Court opening as way to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

WILMINGTON, DE — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said President Donald Trump is using the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a way to have the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare overturned.

The former vice president said from Wilmington, Delaware Sunday it was "no surprise" Trump appointed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to take the place of Ginsburg on Saturday, and tweeted Sunday: "Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative if it is terminated in the Supreme Court."

Biden said Trump has "made his objective clear: to terminate Obamacare."

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Coney Barrett should only receive a vote if Trump wins the Nov. 3 election, Biden said.

He said "if the people do not choose Donald Trump and choose me," he should be given the opportunity to nominate a judge.

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But don't expect Biden to release a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees. Trump released a list of several people he had considered for the top court just days before Ginsburg's death.

"I'm not gonna play the Trump game and take the eye off the issue before us," Biden told reporters in Wilmington. "What I'm focused on is making sure the American people understand they are being cut out of the process they are designed to be a part of."

Watch a video replay of Biden's Sunday speech in the video player above. The speech begins at the 1:40 mark.

Trump on Saturday officially nominated Barrett, a federal appellate judge viewed as a reliable conservative on hot-button legal issues. Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice since 1993, died a week earlier at age 87.

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