This is the influence of Mitch McConnell in action; quite a few names in the Senate owe their office to McConnell, so they will do McConnell's bidding when their strings are jerked.
The GOPe machine badly, desperately wants one of their own as Majority Leader, because this is how they insulated the Deep State from Trump last time. McConnell was the architect behind why many of the things Trump wanted to do didn't get done.
This is the influence of Mitch McConnell in action; quite a few names in the Senate owe their office to McConnell, so they will do McConnell's bidding when their strings are jerked.
The GOPe machine badly, desperately wants one of their own as Majority Leader, because this is how they insulated the Deep State from Trump last time. McConnell was the architect behind why many of the things Trump wanted to do didn't get done.