The Senate straggler withholding his 2024 endorsement
Fraying relationships. Enticing alliances. Egos abound.
As Donald Trump bulldozed his way to another apparent Republican presidential nomination earlier this year, the most considerable intrigue centered around whether Sen. Mitch McConnell would offer his public blessing to his on-again, off-again nemesis.
Now, nearing five months from Election Day, it’s Rand Paul, Kentucky’s junior senator and the Senate’s leading libertarian, who is stiff-arming his party’s 2024 presumptive GOP nominee.
Close to three months after McConnell announced his support for Trump, Paul still hasn’t gotten aboard the Trump train.
The explanation as to why is a story seeded by fraying relationships, new ideological alliances, the personal power of a singular senator and of course, egos abound.
