“McConnell was the ultimate backstop in opposition to the entire Trumpification of the Senate.”
The race to grow to be the Senate’s prime Republican is already below method. Mitch McConnell made the shock announcement this week that he’ll step down from his position as Senate minority chief in November—ending his tenure because the longest-serving Senate chief in U.S. historical past and solidifying former President Donald Trump because the chief of at present’s Republican Get together.
In the meantime, each President Joe Biden and Trump gained their respective primaries on Tuesday, however the outcomes underscored vulnerabilities of their 2024 bids for the White Home.
Becoming a member of the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to debate this and extra are Adam Harris, a employees author for The Atlantic; Leigh Ann Caldwell, a co-author of the Early 202 publication at The Washington Publish and an anchor at Washington Publish Reside; Ed O’Keefe, a senior White Home and political correspondent at CBS; and Nancy Youssef, a national-security correspondent at The Wall Avenue Journal.
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