The number of Trump-skeptic conservatives is modest in the House and shrinking in their natural habit in the Senate
Photo: Getty Images Republican John Thune has a problem. He’s served three terms representing South Dakota in the Senate as a conventionally conservative lawmaker close to the leadership. And it seems hanging around to see if he can succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP leader is the main reason he’d run again at the age of 60 .
Part of Mr. Thune’s hesitation owes to Mr. Trump and the potential for the former president — who lashed out at Mr. Thune early this year when the senator rejected his attempts to overturn the election — to intervene in South Dakota’s Senate primary race. But the larger factor may be the longer-range prospect of taking over the Senate Republican caucus with Mr. Trump still in the wings or as the party’s standard-bearer in 2024.
“We’ve just got to plow through this to the post-Donald Trump era, which I believe is coming,” Ms. Collins said, lamenting that the former president’s “haranguing the leader, Mitch, has gotten worse lately.” It sure doesn’t look that way now, with Trump being the odds-on favorite for a party-backed comeback bid in 2024, with both elite and rank-and-file Republicans either embracing or tolerating his subversive and mendacious views about 2020.
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