Making sense of what matters most in Washington.There’s an inherent tension between any President and the Senate Majority Leader.
George W.
Bush and his team did everything they could in 2004 to make Tom Daschle the first party leader in the Senate to lose re-election since 1952.
Barack Obama, who hired Daschle’s top aide as his own when he won a seat in the the Senate that same year, had a respectful but strained relationship with Harry Reid, who praised him as a "light-skinned African-American" with "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Donald Trump insulted Mitch McConnell as “Old Crow.” And Chuck Schumer drove out to Joe Biden’s beach house in Delaware after a calamitous debate performance against Trump to tell his former Senate colleague that he had to end h…
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