“Maybe he’s slowed down a half step over the last couple years, but I don’t see any gross changes,” Senator Marshall toldTommy Tuberville,Tuberville also noted, generally, “We all gotta know when enough’s enough…. He’s fine. He’ll make his own decision on that.”
It’s no secret who is in the running for McConnell’s successorship. “I think people who would be interested in his position are people who are in leadership today,” said SenatorJohn Cornyn,“The three Johns,” though, dominate the chatter of any post-McConnell order more than the two women on the leadership team—Ernst and conference vice chairman—or any possibility of a wild card in the conference, assumptions that bristle some Senate Republicans.
“McConnell is our leader,” laughed Barrasso, the senior senator from Wyoming, a seat he has held since 2007, when asked about the GOP leader’s eventual secession.