Hoo boy. And that’s without reading the soon-to-be-leaked House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz, too.
The drumbeats around the GOP campfire yesterday already made Donald Trump’s choice for Attorney General look like a longshot. Even one of his top allies in the Senate caucus couldn’t muster up any enthusiasm for Gaetz; Ted Cruz just told Newsmax that the process would have to play out on the “surprise” pick.
A lack of enthusiasm isn’t really the problem, the Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon. The problem is outright hostility to the move, so much so that Gaetz might lose half the caucus and fail to even have his nomination clear the Senate Judiciary Committee:
“It’s simply that Matt Gaetz has a very long, steep hill to get across the finish line,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.). “And it will require the spending of a lot of…
