Sen. Daines’ endorsement of Trump this week highlighted how top Senate GOP members have quietly decided to join forces with Trump, putting aside toxic relationships, to boost their push for the majority. Senate Republicans' uneasy alliance with Trump:
Mitch McConnellFormer President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves Trump Tower for a deposition in New York, April 13, 2023.
But the minority leader, according to a person familiar with his thinking, believed that somebody in the Senate GOP leadership ranks should have a working relationship with the party’s leading presidential contender — and it might as well be the man charged with winning back the Senate majority.
“He’s got a tough job to do,” Thune told reporters at the Capitol. “He’s got a lot of races around the country that we need to win. And I think he wants as many allies as possible.” “Montana is a big Trump-supporting state,” Romney said Wednesday. “I don’t think he did that as the leader of the Republican team. Mitch McConnell is our leader, and I doubt he’ll endorse anybody.”Some wondered whether Daines was deliberately defying McConnell like the last chair of the party campaign arm, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, did during last year’s midterm elections.
While the rest of McConnell’s team keeps their distance from the former president, Daines speaks frequently with Trump, including as recently as Wednesday night, said a person with direct knowledge of the call who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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