Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has raised a whopping $18.3 million dollars this election cycle to help GOP incumbents and candidates — putting him ahead of his leadership opponent Sen. John Thune (R-S.D), Axios reports.

Bloomberg: “Senate Republicans are girding for a demand by Donald Trump to undo the chamber’s filibuster traditions in order to advance his agenda if he returns to the White House.” “But any attempt to eject that rule would face staunch opposition from the vast majority of Senate Republicans, who

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told the Washington Post he is eager to step out of leadership and into a role as a rank-and-file member. Said McConnell: “After 18 years of kind of getting beat up and defending everybody else, I’m kind of looking forward to pursuing what I want to

“I don’t want to take a bit away from Chuck. He didn’t have any Ukraine problems, I had all of them. But, we agreed on the overall goal. It was not possible for him to help me with my members. Nor was it possible for the president to help me with my members. It was a Republican family argument.” —

HuffPost: “His attacks against members of his own party and public breaks with the White House are drawing comparisons to Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the two signature Democratic party apostates of the moment, putting on display some of the very tendencies Fetterman said he opposed — even