Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested that Republicans, if they controlled the Senate in 2024, would not advance President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee due to the proximity of the election. In 2016, McConnell and Senate Republicans received blowback from Democrats when President Barack Obama when they would not give a hearing to Obama’s then-Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. “I think it’s highly unlikely—in fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election,” McConnell said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday when he asked about the possibility. The senate minority leader was also asked about a scenario in which Republicans control the Senate in 2023 and a Supreme Court justice steps down. “We’ll have to wait and see what happens,” McConnell said …