The Daily Caller is reporting that Seante Leader Thune admitted behind closed doors that some Republicans in the Senate hate President Trump too much to pass the SAVE America Act.
Here’s what they wrote:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune admitted some Senate Republicans hate President Donald Trump too much to support the SAVE America Act, multiple sources familiar with the comments told the Daily Caller.
Thune admitted during a closed-door GOP lunch on Wednesday that some Republican senators oppose President Donald Trump so strongly that they will never vote for the SAVE America Act, regardless of the legislation’s merits, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
The discussion quickly escalated into a heated exchange between Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, the bill’s chief Senate sponsor, and several of his GOP colleagues. Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Thune both challenged Lee’s push for the legislation, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
“Yeah, that totally happened,” a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Caller.
Still, the Majority Leader’s office denies the admission. “This is a baseless claim, and it is unequivocally untrue,” a spokesperson for Thune told the Daily Caller.
The confrontation was first reported by Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio, who wrote in a Wednesday X post, “GOP senators went after Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) during the closed-door lunch meeting today over his push for the SAVE America Act, in what one source described as a ‘pile-on.’ Sens. Cornyn & Kennedy challenged Lee about his strategy and complained that Trump is being led to believe it’s possible for the Senate to pass it, leading to Republicans attacking each other & Trump undermining his own agenda.”
It’s totally believable to me that people like Cornyn, Murkowski, Tillis, McConnell and maybe Collins hate Trump so much that they would never pass the SAVE America Act. And honestly, I think Thune likes hiding behind them because he really doesn’t want to nuke the filibuster.
So yeah, I totally believe this.