The debate over some of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has exposed the careful path some Republican senators will be walking to satisfy the president-elect’s demand for loyalty and navigate his allies’ threats to recruit primary challengers to lawmakers deemed insufficiently supportive.
GOP senators who oppose his Cabinet nominees ought to face a primary from the right “if they’re unreasonable,” Trump said at a Monday news conference at Mar-a-Lago.
“If they’re opposing somebody for political reasons or stupid reasons, I would say … they probably would be primaried,” he said.
