He relied on McConnell a lot but no more after what happened.
I notice the endorsements are getting better anyway.
yup and mccarthy and lindsey, et al.
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but, imo, i think he was really spooked and hamstrung by the appointment of muller as a special prosecutor on the fake russia collusion gambit by the adminstrative state. he kinda panic’ed about that and made it bigger than it really was. i think it obsessed him, when he should have been expecting it from the get go. the administrative state was always his main enemy, and for all the “drain the swamp” rhetoric, he really accomplished nothing on that front, because his close advisors/lawyers didn’t let him.