WASHINGTON — All four of President Trump’s candidates for the Supreme Court are white, middle-aged federal appeals court judges with reliably conservative legal records.

One of them, Brett M. Kavanaugh, went to the same high school as Mr. Trump’s last nominee, Neil M. Gorsuch — Georgetown Preparatory School, outside Washington. Another, Raymond M. Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit, so resembles Justice Gorsuch in background, philosophy, hobbies — both are outdoorsmen who like fishing — and even physical appearance, that some conservatives have taken to calling him “Gorsuch 2.0.”

As Mr. Trump holed up Friday in the private residence at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., to make his decision — determined to wring some residual drama from a process that is not, on the merits, all that dramatic — the similarities to Justice Gorsuch may prove as important as any other qualification.

Mr. Trump, aides said, views the Gorsuch nomination as one of the unalloyed triumphs of his presidency, a model for how he would like to fill the seat soon to be vacated by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. The president’s goal is a replay of January 2017, when he unveiled Judge Gorsuch in a much-anticipated ceremony in the East Room of the White House, presenting him to a rapturous audience of Republican lawmakers almost as if he were the winner of a “Survivor” episode, Supreme Court edition.