Opinion: The Republican Senate majority is imperiled
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer February 28 at 12:00 PM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week underscored — perhaps, contributed to — the peril in which the body’s Republican majority finds itself.
A measly three Republican senators have announced that they will support the resolution, leaving the other 50 Republicans, including 18 of the 22 who will be on the ballot in 2020, in defense of an out-of-control, widely unpopular president. Unless they do an about-face, they’ll all have to answer the painful question: Why didn’t you stand up to Trump and defend the Constitution?
Even in Kentucky, where McConnell remains overwhelmingly unpopular, you would think a staunch conservative running on fidelity to the Constitution might have a shot in a primary.
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