in the past been counted to give a republican nominee vote said he won t vote for judge gorsuch until the situation with judge gor land is taken care of. in other words, let s deal with garland first, which they re not going to. so i think a lot of it has to do with judge garland and the situation regarding president trump perhaps using litmus tests to pick a judge, using the federal society and the heritage foundation to come up with his lists, the comments that he made about some judges that ruled against him, all of this weighs against judge gorsuch, none of which is judge gorsuch s felt. in the end the democrats are being pressured by their interest groups to filibuster this. the question will become, i think we re down to 7 of the 10 democrats that are elected from trump majority states. three have already said they won t go for gorsuch. so there are 7 of those left. there is a few members of