Two female protesters, and alleged rape victims, trapped Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator and berated him after he announced he was voting to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanugh.

Flake gave Kavanaugh's nomination a major boost from the Judiciary Committee after the holdout Republican senator announced his support Friday morning following a day of harrowing testimony from Christine Blasey Ford who claims he sexually assaulted her.

Shortly after the announcement, Flake was walking into an elevator when two women confronted him on his decision.

The dramatic moment is indicative of the chaos and high tensions surrounding this confirmation hearing, which has sparked days of protests, angry confrontations by other victims, including a rape survivor running after Sen. Lindey Graham, and walk-outs on both sides of the aisle.

During Flake's showdown, the senator was attempting to take the elevator when the women stood in the doorway, preventing the doors from closing.

Both woman revealed that they were survivors of sexual abuse, and accused Flake of silencing rape victims by announcing his support for Kavanaugh.

One of the women shouted, through tears: 'Don't look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happens to me.'

This is the dramatic moment that two female protesters, and alleged rape victims, trapped Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator

Flake was stuck in the elevator for around five minutes after the protesters blocked the elevator doors

'I was sexually assaulted and no one believed me,' she continued.

'You're telling all women they don't matter. That they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happen to them, that you are going to ignore them.

'That's what you're telling all women in America.

'You're telling me that my assault doesn't matter.

'That's what you're telling me when you vote for him.'

A second protester, Ana Maria Archila - co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and the Center of Popular Democracy Action - told the senator that she recognized her own experience of sexual assault in Dr Ford's story and knew that 'she is telling the truth.'

'On Monday, I stood in front of your office,' she told Flake. 'I told the story of my sexual assault. I told it because I recognized in Dr. Ford's story that she is telling the truth.'

Flake was walking into an elevator when two women ran up to him and stood blocking the doors

Telling him they were rape victims themselves, one of the women shouted, through tears: 'Don't look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happens to me'

'I need to go to the hearing,' he responded. The confrontation went on for five minutes before Flake was finally able to close the elevator doors and escape

Flake gave Kavanaugh's nomination a major boost from the Judiciary Committee after the holdout Republican senator announced his support Friday morning

'What you are doing it allowing someone who violated a woman to sit in the Supreme Court. This is not tolerable!' she told him.

'You have children in your family - think about them. I cannot imagine that for the next 50 years they will have to have someone in the Supreme Court accused of violating a young girl.

When asked by the press who had caught up with the confrontation if Flake would respond to the protesters, he simply said 'No, I need to go to the hearing. I just made a statement.'

The confrontation went on for five minutes before Flake was finally able to close the elevator doors and escape.

The development came after Flake announced: 'I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.'

He issued the definitive statement after leaving both sides guessing with his vague speech at Thursday's tense hearing.

'You needed to go to the cops. Go to the cops,' Swirling and others accused Graham of telling a rape survivor. Graham is pictured Thursday during Kavanaugh's testimony

Activist Robyn Swirling said she told Senator Lindsey Graham she is the victim of sexual assault and he told her she 'needed to go to the cops'

Swirling confronted Graham during a break in the testimonies of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford

'After hearing more than 30 hours of testimony from Judge Kavanaugh earlier this month, I was prepared to support his nomination based on his view of the law and his record as a judge. In fact, I commented at the time that had he been nominated in another era, he would have likely received 90+ votes,' Flake said.

'When Dr. Ford's allegations against Judge Kavanaugh surfaced two weeks ago, I insisted that she be allowed to testify before the committee moved to a vote. Yesterday, we heard compelling testimony from Dr. Ford, as well as a persuasive response from Judge Kavanaugh. I wish that I could express the confidence that some of my colleagues have conveyed about what either did or did not happen in the early 1980s, but I left the hearing yesterday with as much doubt as certainty.

'What I do know is that our system of justice affords a presumption of innocence to the accused, absent corroborating evidence. That is what binds us to the rule of law. While some may argue that a different standard should apply regarding the Senate's advice and consent responsibilities, I believe that the constitution's provisions of fairness and due process apply here as well.'

But later on Friday, Flake - who appeared shaken by the confrontation - asked for a delay for an investigation into the claims.

Meanwhile, protesters both for and against Kavanaugh have been demonstrating outside the court and all over the country for days.

On Friday, a group of protesters had to be escorted out of the Senate hearing after furious demonstrators poured into two Senate office buildings Friday shouting 'Shame!'

Police arrested a number of protesters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Then at noon, more than a hundred protesters gathered in front of the Supreme Court ahead of a press conference by Women's March.

They were joined by several Democratic senators who addressed the crowd.

'We will not be bullied,' Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., told the demonstrators.

And last night, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was chased down a hallway by a rape victim who he then encouraged to report her story to the police.

Activist Robyn Swirling said she approached Graham in the lobby of the Capitol basement after he criticized Ford for not remembering the exact date she was allegedly assaulted by Kavanaugh.

Swirling, wearing a 'Trust Women' t-shirt, told the South Carolina senator that she was raped 13 years ago and doesn't remember the date, but that doesn't make her less credible.

'So would you believe me?' she asked Graham.

She said he told her: 'I'm sorry', but then made an inconsiderate remark as he scurried into the elevator.

Activists protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh outside the Supreme Court while Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, testified on Thursday

Demonstrators against US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh protests at the Hart US Senate office building in Washington, DC, on September 27

Demonstrators hold up placards against US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on September 27

Activists protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh get arrested outside the Supreme Court

'You needed to go to the cops. Go to the cops,' he said in video posted by CNN.

Swirling said Graham's comment to her was 'cruel, dismissive and insensitive'.

'If Graham had paused to talk with me, instead of rushing into the elevator, I'd have told him the cops can't do anything about it now, but that doesn't make it any less true and doesn't make me any less credible,' she tweeted.

Swirling, who founded the anti-sexual harassment organization Works in Progress, said she stopped by the hearing to confront Graham and other senators and to urge them 'to care about the experiences of sexual assault survivors and to believe us'.

Before his encounter with Swirling, Graham told reporters that Ford's testimony was not convincing and her 'hiring a lawyer and taking a polygraph makes me more suspicious'.

The chaos continued today when four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee walked out of the hearing in protest after Republicans decided to schedule a 'time certain' vote for 1.30pm.

'I strongly object. This is just totally ridiculous. What a railroad job. My answer is no, no, no!' Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) yelled out shortly before leaving the room with Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) walked out of the room,

'We did not coordinate walking out. You know we feel this in here,' Hirono said pointing to her hear

Republican senators say the Judiciary Committee voted for Brett Kavanaugh's (pictured in court yesterday) nomination to the Supreme Court Friday

The panel is expected to approve Kavanaugh's confirmation on Friday given the support of Flake.

But bizarrely, when it came to closing statements of sorts, every senator on the committee spoke except Flake who was skipped over.

When Sen. Mike Crapo asked him if he wanted to talk, 'Flake held up his hand and shook his head no, then got up and left,' Buzzfeed reported.

His announcement came one day after both Kavanaugh and Ford delivered emotional testimonies yesterday.

Kavanaugh issued his own tearful and emotional denial, then attacked panel Democrats of being part of a conspiracy to bring his nomination down.

Within minutes of the conclusion of the riveting Senate hearing, Republicans announced that the Judiciary Committee would meet Friday morning for a vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation.

Kavanaugh is expected to clear a committee roll call. But even if he doesn't, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will start turning the Senate's wheels with a procedural floor vote as early as Saturday.

Key holdouts huddled in the Capitol on Thursday evening, including SusanCollins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona.