pump will only prime when basket is out

[ScottsdaleSwim]

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Did this problem just start recently or has this been happening for awhile? If so how long?

[ScottsdaleSwim]

probably just within the last couple of weeks. I have the pump on a timer so it comes on when I'm not watching it. I didn't know it wasn't priming fully because I wasn't standing over the skimmer basket.
Now, I'll know better to check on it every once in a while. Even when I clean out the basket, I clean it and then let the pump come on and prime itself.
It's frustrating to watch that basket get alllllmost full and then have a darned bubble at the top.

It's like feeling like you have to sneeze and then you don't!

Also..there's no water spurting from the lid....