Which accurately describes President Trump's Supreme Court nominations through 2018?

• A. Both confirmed with fairly close votes that were mostly along party lines.
• B. Trump did not have the opportunity to make any Supreme Court nominations during his first two years in office.
• C. One nominee was confirmed, but the other nominee was not confirmed due to late-arising sexual assault allegations.
• D. Neither was confirmed due to opposition within the Republican Party.

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is how Trump’s Supreme Court picks through 2018 were approved by the Senate in close, partisan votes. Neil Gorsuch’s 2017 confirmation came with a relatively narrow margin, reflecting strong Republican backing and some crossing Democratic support. A vear later, Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation was even closer, again driven mostly by party lines with a few crossovers. Together, these show a pattern: high-stakes nominations on a highly polarized Senate tend to pass only with substantial but not overwhelming support from the president’s party. The other descriptions don’t fit because there were confirmed nominations in the first two years, both nominees were confirmed despite controversy, and neither was blocked purely on party opposition or by allegations.