President Trump “acknowledged that he would most likely not be able to persuade any Democrats to vote for Judge Kavanaugh, meaning that he would have to hold nearly every Republican to win confirmation in the narrowly divided Senate,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “We’ll get almost no Democrat. We may get a couple in states where I won by many, many points — you understand that — but we’ll essentially get no Democrat.”
He also called Kavanaugh a “fantastic, fantastic man” as he cast doubt on sexual misconduct allegations that have jeopardized the judge’s nomination to the Supreme Court.