Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “is scrambling to reassert control over a Republican Party hamstrung by a razor-thin governing majority and riven by increasingly bloody primary fights,” the Washington Post reports.
“Votes in the Senate on even straightforward measures, like Thursday’s on the next NASA administrator, have become a struggle, as individual GOP members leverage the absence of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to pursue other aims.”
“McConnell had to pull aside rogue senators over their occasional defiance twice in the last two days. He warned one — Bob Corker — in a private conversation that his comments risked hurting the party’s ability to hold its majority in November’s midterm elections.”
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