McConnell has a good week in battle to retake Senate majority - Roll Call

ANALYSIS — On policy and politics, it was a good week for Mitch McConnell.

First, the Senate Republican leader, who has long opposed an isolationist approach to foreign policy, helped shepherd a $95 billion bipartisan foreign aid package through a thicket of GOP opposition fomented by former President Donald Trump.  

Then McConnell’s quest to regain control of the Senate received a boost, first from news that his preferred candidate in Wisconsin, Eric Hovde, would be getting into the race to challenge Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and then when a candidate he preferred not to see run, Rep. Matt Rosendale, dropped his Montana Senate bid. That cleared the way for the McConnell favorite, businessman Tim Sheehy, to mount a challenge to Sen. Jon Tester.