President Donald Trump continued encouraging his party’s Senate leader Wednesday to waive a 60-vote threshold to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, if necessary, the morning after the upper chamber’s top Democrat suggested a nomination fight was coming.
“I feel that it’s very dishonest if [Democrats] go about doing that, and yes, if we end up with the same gridlock they’ve had in Washington for the last—longer than eight years, in all fairness to President Obama, a lot longer than eight years—but if we end up with that gridlock, I would say, if you can, Mitch [McConnell], go nuclear,” Trump said during a meeting with groups supporting Gorsuch’s nomination. “Because that would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality is caught up in the web. It’s up to Mitch, but I would say go for it.”
