… As the Donald Trump campaign implodes, Mr. McConnell could not care less about his party’s presidential nominee. The thing he cares about is making sure that Republicans focus on supporting his Senate colleagues Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Rob Portman (Ind.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), and Marco Rubio (Fla.), all of whom face difficult re-election contests. So for Mr. McConnell to raise the specter that he might be relegated back to minority leader really didn’t surprise me.
That is–I wasn’t surprised until the latest batch of battleground-state polls were released Friday morning. CONT.
Jim Manley (QGA Public Affairs), Wall Street Journal