WASHINGTON ¨C Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Thursday he believed Hillary Clinton would stick with President Barack Obama¡¯s Supreme Court nominee if she won the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Some Republican conservatives were concerned that if Democratic presidential candidate Clinton won the White House, she would pick a more liberal judge than Obama¡¯s nominee, Merrick Garland, for a lifetime appointment to the high court. Garland is a centrist federal appeals court judge whom a number of Republicans have praised.

¡°I would think that she and all the people around her would say, ¡®Why do we need to rock the boat here? Let¡¯s get him confirmed quickly and move on to the next one, whenever that comes,¡¯¡± Reid said on a conference call with reporters.

Clinton has urged the Senate to confirm Garland. Her campaign did not immediately return a request for comment on Reid¡¯s remarks.

Senate Democrats may try to force a vote on procedural motions that, if successful, would lead to a vote on Garland before the new president takes office in January, Reid said. He invited along Republicans who want to distance themselves from their party¡¯s controversial presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

¡°We have a couple of options and we are deciding when to do that. And if we should do that. When and if,¡± Reid said.

The leader of the Republican-controlled Senate, Mitch McConnell, has refused to schedule hearings on the nomination of Garland, saying the winner of the Nov. 8 presidential election should choose the Supreme Court justice. Obama nominated Garland on March 16 to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13.

¡°The majority leader has been clear: the next president will make the nomination for this vacancy,¡± Don Stewart, deputy chief of staff for McConnell, said in an email.

A number of Republican senators in tough re-election fights are trying to distance themselves from their party¡¯s controversial nominee, yet they refuse to hold a vote on Garland, Reid said.

He said those Republicans should call on McConnell to confirm Garland, not hold the Supreme Court seat for someone as ¡°radical and unfit¡± as Trump, a New York businessman who has never held public office.

¡°They spend a lot of time these Republicans, spending a lot of energy trying to separate themselves from Donald Trump. But as long as they¡¯re holding a Supreme Court seat open for him, they¡¯re his minions. They¡¯re his enablers,¡± Reid said.