The article is paywall blocked. Is this good news or bad news? I can’t tell if he was MAGA or RINO.
That’s odd. It wasn’t for me. I don’t pay for news articles. I use Bing. Maybe that’s why I could view it.
Another article referred to him as moderate. So good riddance. Their cozy little power-succession scheme was abruptly interrupted.
McCortney was a moderate at best. He was hand picked by the previous President Pro Tempore as his replacement. There was a lot of pushback on McCortney getting the leadership position, but it looked like some back room deals were made to get him elected by the caucus. The voters fixed it.
Here’s the sentence from another article,
“McCortney, considered to be more moderate than some of his GOP colleagues, was the Senate Majority floor leader and was slated to become the next president pro tem.”