by Isaac Schorr
No matter what happens four years from now, Cotton has become someone Senate Republicans look to for leadership on a broad array of thorny issues.
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Sen. Tom Cotton speaks with reporters in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
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Senator Tom Cotton has plenty of competition when you think of the forces driving the ideological development of today’s GOP. Nebraska’s Ben Sasse has a Ph.D. and was a university president. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are whip-smart, well-spoken constitutional experts.
And yet, Cotton has begun to play a key role in shaping the direction of the caucus, and he might have the brightest political future of the bunch.
About the Author
Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.
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Senator Tom Cotton has plenty of competition when you think of the forces driving the ideological development of today’s GOP. Nebraska’s Ben Sasse has a Ph.D. and was a university president. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are whip-smart, well-spoken constitutional experts.
And yet, Cotton has begun to play a key role in shaping the direction of the caucus, and he might have the brightest political future of the bunch.
About the Author
Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.
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