Schumer did not believe that Biden’s statement was damaging to the Democrats’ argument that Republican leadership should move any Supreme Court nominee of President Obama’s to a hearing and then a vote.

“Look, the simple answer to this, which everyone is saying everywhere is, ‘Do your job.’ It doesn’t matter what anybody said in the past. Do your job. It’s working,” Schumer said. He claims he had not seen Biden’s exact statement but when pressed about it, he repeated, “We should do our job.”