‘We are knifing each other’: Trump’s showdown with Senate GOP leader splinters unity ahead of midterms | CNN Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson sometimes canât get President Trump off the phone. The calls can come in the middle of the day â or the dead of night â or even after hourslong meetings at the White House, the Louisiana Republican often tells associates. But across the Capitol, the same canât be said for the other top GOP leader: Senate Majority Leader John Thune. It can be days, if not weeks, that Thune doesnât hear from the president. Thune instead mostly learns about Trumpâs latest grenade roiling the GOP agenda or the broadsides directed at the Senate majority leader himself from Truth Social and the media. During the latest high-stakes stretch in the Senate, with Trumpâs own Cabinet nominee in trouble, the presidentâs election-year agenda teetering and a huge Iran funding bill in doubt, Thune told CNN he hadnât spoken to the president in nearly two weeks. The split between the two has only widened since Trump moved to take out fellow Republican, Sen. John Cornyn, in his primary in May, and as the president has loudly insisted that the Senate nuke the filibuster â a demand the GOP leader has repeatedly rejected. âWith me, itâs more on an as-needed basis,â Th
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