Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, may not have Mitch McConnell’s vote, Axios reported on Thursday. And if the former Senate majority leader withholds his support, McConnell may provide the Senate GOP conference’s quieter members, who value the maintenance of the U.S.-led order abroad over even their standing with Trump and the MAGA movement, cover to do the same.
That’s the upshot of the piece. But it concludes with a question mark about the extent to which the Senate Democrats, who are beholden to a progressive interpretation of geopolitics, might break with their party’s leadership to back their former Democratic colleague. For his part, Chuck Schumer thinks he can keep his caucus in line. Of all Trump’s nominees, the report concluded, “They see Gabbard” as the candidate they are most likely to derail.
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