Chuck Grassley: ‘Five or six’ Democrats will support Brett Kavanaugh if GOP sticks together

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, predicted Wednesday that a handful of Democrats will end up voting for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, but only if Republicans stick together and deliver a majority first.

“I think that we can’t count on any Democrats until we get the 50 votes we need, and then we’ll get five or six of them,” Grassley said on Fox News. “Otherwise, I don’t think we can count on them.”

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