As I reported on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been pressuring GOP senators behind closed doors to pledge to support his (the Democrats’) border bill before it’s released to the public for open debate. McConnell has reportedly kept the largely complete bill “secret” until he can lock in the support of at least 20 of the 49 Senate Republicans.
Welp, it now appears that the embattled Minority Leader has been rebuffed by a sufficient number of his Republican colleagues — each with a spine that he sorely lacks — who have refused to link Ukraine aid to the Biden Border Crisis.
McConnell reportedly told a group of GOP senators behind closed doors on Wednesday that “the politics have changed” — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s decisive wins in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary — referencing Trump’s plan to run on the…
