McConnell Keeps the Tea Party at Bay

“Senate Republicans have surrendered none of their primary fights to conservative challengers for the second straight election cycle,” the Washington Post reports.

“In doing so, they left conservative hard-liners without a single banner victory to claim as their own in recent years. And Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) increased his chances of keeping the Senate in Republican hands in 2017 by ensuring that his crop of nominees is more palatable to general election voters.”