Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) bragged it is “highly unlikely” that Judge Neil Gorsuch will get the needed 60 votes to end debate on his nomination to the Supreme Court.

Schumer made the remarks on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday, which host Chuck Todd kicked off by saying President Donald Trump is a “president in crisis.”

“This is not a mainstream choice. He’s way far over.”

But the oddest claim Schumer made was saying Gorsuch was not a mainstream candidate, and that the Senate was not consulted on Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13, 2016.

“All Trump consulted was the hard-right Federalist Society,” said Schumer. “And The New York Times and The Washington Post, one said he’d be the second-most conservative justice on the court, only short of Thomas. The other, The Post, said he’d be the most conservative. This is not a mainstream choice. He’s way far over.”

Schumer’s claim that Gorsuch is not a mainstream conservative runs counter to what Republicans and many left-leaning figures outside the Senate are saying.

Republicans in the Senate GOP majority favor Gorsuch, and not a single Republican senator has raised objections to the Gorsuch nomination.

Gorsuch has also inspired Republicans to begin discussing the “nuclear option” to end the filibuster.

Earlier in the show, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he supported Gorsuch. McConnell denied there was ever a “precedent” for a 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees.

Two Supreme Court nominees since 1990 have passed the Senate with fewer than 60 votes, Schumer said.

But Schumer said only one, Clarence Thomas, failed to get more than 60 votes in either a cloture vote — which ends debate — or the final confirmation vote.

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Schumer said the 60-vote “standard” forces a mainstream nominee.

Todd later cited a recent poll showing 54 percent of voters want a vote on Gorsuch, but 64 percent of Democrats do not want a vote on Gorsuch.

The Senate’s cloture rule forces 60 votes on Supreme Court nominees and most legislative debates if a filibuster arises.

One “Meet the Press” analyst said Americans could soon start asking if the arcane Senate rule will frustrate the voters.

“Why do we have a 60-vote threshold?” said Amy Walter, editor of the Cook Political Report. “Isn’t this stopping us from getting things done?”