I think he gave the right answer. "I'm not a fan of court packing, but I don't want to get off track on that issue."
The reason court packing, as a phrase, is even being brought up is because Republicans have broken from their own tradition on confirming supreme court justices. The issue isn't whether Joe Biden and Senate Democrats will add justices to the supreme court or not, the issue is whether Republicans are comfortable lying to the American people about their position on Supreme Court confirmations in election years. If they are comfortable doing that, then that's the issue, their comfort with lying to Americans.
"Court packing" is a losing idea for Democrats in an election, it's why Republicans are so eager to talk about it. It's why Trump, in the debates, barely even talked about Amy Coney Barrett (His own nominee!), and instead immediately went to this idea that Biden is going to "pack the courts." They're desperate for an issue like that because they can't win on any issue they've had in the last four years.
Whenever court packing as a question comes up, it's an opportunity for Biden to not answer the question and pivot back to Republicans in the senate. Republicans in the senate have stonewalled stimulus for Americans being crushed by Trump's mishandling of COVID-19, they've stonewalled economic relief, they've stonewalled funding for the post office which provides prescription medicine to millions of American seniors, they've stonewalled on every issue that's important to Americans today....... Except they've found plenty of time to launch a confirmation process for a justice that THEY THEMSELVES said shouldn't be confirmed in an election year.
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