“A stonefaced Mitch McConnell walked onto the Senate floor on Sunday to push back against isolationists in his party, mere hours after Donald Trump cast serious doubt on the strength of U.S. alliances,” Bloomberg reports.
“The veteran Republican Senate leader has become the last serious bulwark within the party against Trump populists’ animosity toward US international commitments, even as the increasingly frail McConnell’s influence has waned sharply in the last year.
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