Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Hours after Donald Trump became the likely GOP nominee, the conservative website RedState urged the Senate to confirm President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. 
  
 Site managing editor Leon Wolf argued that Trump can’t beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — and warned that she would chose somebody more liberal than Garland. 
  
 “Republicans must know that there is absolutely no chance that we will win the White House in 2016 now. They must also know that we are likely to lose the Senate as well. So the choices, essentially, are to confirm Garland and have another bite at the apple in a decade, or watch as President Clinton nominates someone who is radically more leftist and 10-15 years younger, and we are in no position to stop it,” Wolf wrote on RedState. 
  
 President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, announces his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 16. NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP - Getty Images 
  
 Wolf said Garland, whose nomination Republican Senate leaders have vowed to block, is “not a great choice, but … not a terrible one.” 
  
 But now with Trump as the GOP's presidential candidate, "the calculus has changed." 
  
 "Confirm Merrick Garland before it is too late,” Wolf wrote. 
  
 Not all conservatives agree. Erick Erickson, the former editor of RedState who runs The Resurgent now, is against Trump but doesn't support an immediate confirmation of Garland. 
  
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 "If Republicans confirm Merrick Garland, in addition to further alienating the Republican base, they risk taking away keep arguments that can persuade independent voters to go with a Republican Senate. Ticket splitting is a rare phenomenon in the United States, but this is a rare election where ticket splitting is a real possibility," Erickson wrote. 
  
 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t changed his position, either. “Republicans continue to believe that the American people should have a voice in this decision and the next president should make the nomination,” McConnell spokesman Don Stewart told NBC News. ||||| “There is absolutely no reason to drag this out any longer,” RedState.com managing editor Leon Wolf wrote. “Garland is not a great choice, but he is not a terrible one, either.” | AP Photo Conservative blog calls for GOP to confirm Merrick Garland 
  
 RedState has a message for Senate Republicans: Confirm Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court now — before Hillary Clinton picks someone much worse next year. 
  
 Leon Wolf, the managing editor of conservative blog RedState.com, wrote in a post Wednesday that with Ted Cruz dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination and Donald Trump positioned to take it, “this is not even a close call.” 
  
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 “There is absolutely no reason to drag this out any longer,” Wolf wrote. “Garland is not a great choice, but he is not a terrible one, either.” 
  
 After writing that “Republicans must know” they will lose the White House and “likely” the Senate, Wolf argued that the D.C. Circuit judge is probably older and more centrist than anyone Clinton would nominate. 
  
 “In fact, if I were the Republicans, my main concern right now would be that Barack Obama would withdraw Garland’s nomination today,” Wolf wrote. “The fact that Merrick Garland still exists as an option right now is a gift that should not be squandered.” 
  
 But other conservatives, including former RedState editor-in-chief Erick Erickson, disagree. 
  
 "Republicans rushing now to confirm Merrick Garland would just confirm that they think everything is doomed, anger voters who might help them keep the Senate, and further depress Republican turnout in November. They should resist the temptation," Erickson wrote for his blog The Resurgent on Wednesday. 
  
 Erickson said that Republicans will need the support of gun owners, writing that independents "who may not like Trump still like their guns." 
  
 "If Republicans confirm Merrick Garland, in addition to further alienating the Republican base, they risk taking away keep arguments that can persuade independent voters to go with a Republican Senate," Erickson wrote. "Ticket splitting is a rare phenomenon in the United States, but this is a rare election where ticket splitting is a real possibility." 
  
 Obama has tried to sway Republicans in the Senate for weeks, personally calling almost a dozen and pledging to “play it straight” with them. But Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn't budged on considering Garland, and the 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a vow to shelve the nomination until a new president takes office. 
  
 “While I'm glad to see Democrats concede that there won't be a Democrat in the White House next year, Republicans continue to believe that the American people should have a voice in this decision and the next president should make the nomination,” Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, said Wednesday. 
  
 So far, only two GOP senators have called for hearings for Obama’s pick and a few have said they would at least hold courtesy meetings with Garland. 
  
 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has been without a ninth justice to break tie decisions. The court has split on questions about state sovereignty, gender discrimination laws and public-sector union funding since Justice Antonin Scalia died in February. 
  
 Burgess Everett contributed to this story. ||||| WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is continuing his no-holds-barred blockade of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, despite the risk that he may get a less palatable choice from presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, a spokesman for McConnell confirmed Wednesday. 
  
 The conservative wing of the party, angry with Trump's record and principles, is up in arms at GOP officials for coming around to the brash businessman. Some elected officials and party members on Tuesday made clear they would rather disown the GOP -- one even burned his registration card -- than vote for the real estate tycoon. 
  
 Some conservatives are even urging the GOP to cut its losses and confirm Garland, a mostly middle-of-the-road U.S. court of appeals judge widely respected by members of both parties, rather than deal with a more liberal nominee if Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton trounces Trump in the fall. 
  
 "Republicans must know that there is absolutely no chance that we will win the White House in 2016 now," Leon H. Wolf wrote on the conservative website RedState. "They must also know that we are likely to lose the Senate as well. So the choices, essentially, are to confirm Garland and have another bite at the apple in a decade, or watch as President Clinton nominates someone who is radically more leftist and 10-15 years younger, and we are in no position to stop it." 
  
 Indeed, early presidential forecasts strongly favor Democrats. HuffPost Pollster’s polling average shows Trump losing to Clinton, 47 percent to 40 percent, in November. Trump would also be the least popular major party nominee in modern history. 
  
 But the calculus hasn't changed for McConnell, who has kept his conference in line. 
  
 "While I'm glad to see Democrats concede that there won't be a Democrat in the White House next year, Republicans continue to believe that the American people should have a voice in this decision and the next president should make the nomination," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell. 
  
 "Despite the White House coordinating with liberal groups and millions of dollars in special-interest ads, no Republican has moved from their principled position," he added. 
  
 Indeed, a spokeswoman for New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a vulnerable moderate Republican up for re-election in November, on Wednesday confirmed the senator "plans to support" Trump in the general election. 
  
 The risk for Republicans, of course, is that Clinton could use the same rationale of "giving the people a voice" once in office to select a liberal nominee to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia -- and complete a tectonic shift of power on the court. |||||
Student:
With Donald Trump the last GOP presidential candidate standing, some conservatives are starting to get nervous about the Supreme Court. "There is absolutely no reason to drag this out any longer," managing editor Leon Wolf writes at conservative blog RedState. "Garland is not a great choice, but he is not a terrible one, either." Wolf believes that, deep down, Republicans know Trump is going to lose, and Hillary Clinton would be likely to nominate someone younger and more liberal than Obama's choice, Merrick Garland. Wolf calls Garland a "gift that should not be squandered" and says, "If I were the Republicans, my main concern right now would be that Barack Obama would withdraw Garland's nomination today." He might not be wrong to worry. The Huffington Post cites polling that shows Trump would lose 47% to 40% to Clinton in November while being the "least popular major party nominee in modern history." And a more liberal, Clinton-nominated justice would be a "tectonic shift of power on the court." But not everyone agrees. A former RedState editor says Senate Republicans confirming Garland would send a message to voters that they've given up hope, Politico reports. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell still refuses to hear Garland's nomination. "Republicans continue to believe that the American people should have a voice in this decision and the next president should make the nomination," a McConnell spokesperson tells NBC News.