Hints and tips:
...Even McConnell, who had earned a grudging respect among his partisan rivals for failing to kowtow to resurgent Trumpism, has endorsed his candidacy....
...Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator from Connecticut, and James Lankford, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, who have been leading negotiations, have not abandoned their effort....
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, also chimed in. “We’ve heard all kinds of rumours about whether the House supports Ukraine or doesn’t....
...While House Republican leaders are opposed to the deal, Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, has backed it....
...At the same time, McConnell is stepping down from his leadership role and is expected to be replaced by a more Trump-friendly successor....
...Like all the Republican candidates, bar Chris Christie and Nikki Haley at the end, DeSantis refused to take on Trump because he feared losing “the base”....
...What I saw inside that briefing looked like an exercise in political theatre,” Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, told NBC....
...But the gravamen of the charges levelled by Liz Cheney and Chris Christie is that the real Rino, the fake conservative, is actually Trump himself....
...Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor and one of the few Republicans willing to attack Trump, told Fox News Radio: “It is one person after another, one woman after another....
...— which was immediately shot down by McConnell....
...Similar quandaries confront Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, and Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state. Each were loyal henchmen....
...Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator from Connecticut who took up the mantle of gun-control legislation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in his state a decade ago, said a “moral imperative...
...“Look, racism of any sort is abhorrent in America and ought to be stood up to by everybody, both Republicans, Democrats, all Americans,” Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, said this week....
...Some will be familiar household names to most Britons: Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor; Mike Pence, the former VP; Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor....
...Additional reporting by Chris Giles in Paris...
...After the rally, Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said he could not support shorter sentences for rioters who had taken part in an “effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power”....
...Chris Padilla, head of global government affairs for IBM, calls it “the biggest single change I’ve seen in my job in the last 10 years”, while Elizabeth Doty describes the evolution of views over the past...
...Trump added that if Republican senators “stay with [McConnell], they will not win again”....
...(Mind you, the “priority to over-70s” could wave most of them through in any case.)” — Chris Durban, Paris, France...
...Republicans are divided but Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has expressed strong opposition to so-called “blue state bailouts.”...
...[Mr Biden] wants a tailwind, not a headwind, on January 20,” said Chris Krueger, a policy analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, referring to inauguration day....
...In a note to clients on Tuesday, Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, wrote that the stimulus talks were on “life support”....
...Mr Trump last week fired Mark Esper as his defence secretary and appointed Chris Miller, a retired army officer who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, in an acting capacity....
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, who joined yesterday’s negotiations, said he was determined to deliver a deal before members of Congress leave Washington for the holidays....
...But Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senators from Maryland, opposed the move, accusing Mr McConnell of a “political stunt”....
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