⁍ The national opinion poll was conducted Sept. 19-20 after Ginsburg’s death was announced.

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⁍ The poll found that 62% of American adults agreed the vacancy should be filled by the winner of the Nov. 3 matchup between Trump and Biden.

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⁍ Eight out of 10 Democrats – and five in 10 Republicans – agreed that the appointment should wait until after the election.

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– The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has created a vacancy on the Supreme Court that the next president should fill, according to a poll released Sunday. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 62% of American adults agree the vacancy should be filled by the winner of the Nov. 3 election, with 23% disagreeing and the rest not sure. Eight out of 10 Democrats and five out of 10 Republicans agreed that the appointment should wait until after the election. President Trump, who has promised to appoint a conservative justice to the court, needs the support of the Senate, which currently has a 53-47 Republican majority to confirm a nominee. So far two Republican senators—Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski—have said publicly since Ginsburg’s death that they think the winner of the election should make the nomination. Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed a vote with weeks to go in Trump’s term. Democrats are still seething over his refusal to act on Democratic President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016 after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died 10 months before that election. McConnell said then that the Senate should not act on a court nominee during an election year, a stance he has since reversed. The looming fight over the Supreme Court vacancy so far does not appear to have given either of the two major political parties much of an advantage in an incendiary campaign season that already was expected to break participation records. The poll found that 30% of American adults said Ginsburg’s death will make them more likely to vote for Joe Biden in the election.