McConnell Put To The Test.
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will face one of the toughest challenges of his career this week when he tries to muster Senate Republicans to vote for a Ukraine funding and border security package that former President Trump wants to kill.
McConnell’s initial goal, according to Senate GOP colleagues, was to get a border security deal that would have the support of at least half of his conference, which numbers 49 members.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell is going to have a difficult time shepherding his hard fought bill through Congress, especially with the former President Trump trying to kill it. Denying President Biden a big win in an election year is far more important to some the GOP than actually securing the border. Therein lies the crux of the issue, the former President wants nothing more than to win the 2024 election, even if securing the border, the most important issue to his hard core base is scuttled. Will the base care? That’s harder to answer.
