Trump’s dynamic with his current counterpart John Thune is now rapidly climbing that pressure scale.
It was mild ding by Trump’s standards, for sure. But it speaks to the frayed relationship between the two Republicans, who are in a standoff over Trump’s latest fixation, a bill that would remake how Americans vote. Thune has been clear that the proposed legislation, which has cleared the House, lacks the votes it needs in the Senate and there is no appetite for changing the rules to ease its passage. Put plainly: Thune knows the headcount and isn’t wasting the time on something that is doomed, and Trump does not much care for that.
The Senate is racing toward an August recess with a packed to-do list that seems doable: a sanctions bill targeting Russia, a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open through Election Day, movement on a catch-all reconciliation bill, and a bunch of nominees, including one that on Wednesday seemed to inch closer to giving Trump an up-or-down on his imperiled pick for Attorney General. But Trump says the upper chamber should not leave town until it gives him the SAVE America Act, his voting bill. He also wants the Senate to change its threshold for moving most legislation from 60 votes to 51 votes, ending the delay machine of the filibuster.
In response to which Thune had a polite brush-off.
The situation has left nerves raw at the Capitol, with the typically staid Thune showing signs of frustration. "Show me how this ends. What's the picture of victory at the end?" Thune said.
“This is not an open question. It’s just a fact, and the facts don’t change,” Thune said.
But that fuse has flames racing from both ends.
It’s also just bad politics in an environment primed to give Democrats the Senate majority if the GOP base stays home. “Disappointing [the President] but also our voters 99 days before the election strikes me as a bad idea,” said Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who once was a contender for Thune’s role and lost his primary this year to a Trump-backed candidate.
Cornyn was blunt in his assessment of the situation: the Senate “can stay here ‘til the cows come home, and it’s not going to change anything.”
“I don’t think staying in session will make more votes appear. … And we have work to do at home to make sure that we beat the Democrats in November,” the memo advises lawmakers to say.
But even if the Senate were to stay in town, the math is not mathing. “We simply don’t have the votes,” Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota said.
That doesn’t mean Trump will stop pushing for them.
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