One name is notably missing from the headlines and coverage swirling around Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Defense. That person is former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). This doesn’t mean he’s not up to his old games, however. The rapidly weakening Senate resistance to Trump’s pick bears all his hallmarks.
Sure, McConnell (reluctantly) stepped aside from officially leading his party, but that doesn’t mean you can write off the
least popular senator in America. While he’s given up the title, he hasn’t relinquished all that much. This January, he’ll run the influential defense appropriations committee as well as the very influential Rules Committee.
You don’t get to be the longest-serving Senate leader without winning most of your fights.
“He’s still very powerful,” one longtime Senate observer told Blaze News. “He’s got de jure power, and he’s also got de facto power.”
And he’s far from happy that Trump is coming back to Washington.
A week after Trump won the popular vote, the first time a Republican candidate had done so in 20 years, joining Ronald Reagan 1988 and Richard…
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