Vice President Mike Pence and the president are confident that the Senate will beat back Democratic “obstructionists” seeking to filibuster the appointment of Neil Gorsuch in the Senate next week.
Pence was in Ohio to meet with small business leaders in the state’s capital of Columbus. But he was also there to push back against a Democratic plan being led by the Buckeye State’s Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Next week the president’s pick for Supreme Court justice will be taken up in a vote on the floor of the Senate, Pence said. “But remarkably your very own senator, Sherrod Brown, announced that he, and the obstructionist Democrats in the Senate, plan to filibuster judge Gorsuch’s nomination.”
He vowed that Brown’s effort would fail with the help of Republicans like Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, who met with Pence on Saturday at the event in Columbus.
“But let me say that the president and I are confident that with the strong support of Sen. Rob Portman we will overcome the obstructionists, and the U.S. Senate will confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch one way or the other,” Pence said.
