Efforts by conservatives to pressure Republican senators to support President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees have largely been successful so far, as the Senate appears set to maintain its fast rate of confirmations this week.
Since Trump’s victory last fall, an array of conservative outside groups and activists launched campaigns urging Senate Republicans to support the president’s picks or openly warned incumbents who expressed initial concerns about certain nominees that they risked drawing primary challengers ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
“From our perspective, this is going very, very well,” said Ryan Walker, executive vice president at Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
