Job ONE, in fact the ONLY job of a supreme court nominee is to get CONFIRMED.
After that, you can do as you like. We will just have to wait and see.
I think he will be confirmed, 60 or 60 plus votes. Dems are pissed because this was an Obama seat on the court AND the first not-Hilary’s seat, not to mention the first Trump seat. It’s a “triple whammy” seat.
The NEXT pick will be the one the Dems will REALLY fight over. Let’s hope that by then that we have enough Republicans in the Senate, that it won’t matter.
If Scalia is replaced with a judge that votes like Sandra Day O'Connor, the NEXT pick won't matter. The Dems will have successfully moved the court the left for a generation and the pro-abortion wing of the court would be cemented in place by having a 2/3rds majority (with only Thomas, Alito, and Roberts opposing them). Trump could follow it up by replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Michele Bachmann and it wouldn't change the fact that the majority of SCOTUS would remain leftist on key issues. The damage would already be done.
I believe we've already seen a lot of terrible ruilings due to Rehnquist being replaced by the less conservative (but still much more conservative than Gorsuch) John Roberts. The Roberts court is closer to Warren Burger's tenure than it is the Bush-era Rehnquist court.