Political and Legislative
Republicans Worried for Senate After Trump Attacks on McConnell
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell’s relationship simply can’t go on like this for Senate Republicans.
Though the Senate GOP is tantalizingly close to retaking the majority next year and largely united in opposition to President Joe Biden’s agenda, the ongoing feud between the former president and the Senate minority leader has decayed to an entirely untenable place. Trump’s insult-laden diatribe against McConnell this weekend signals that the GOP could splinter badly in primaries next year — and raises the question of whether McConnell and Trump can work together at all.
