Are Senate Republicans turning on Trump?

Nice GOP majority you've got behind you in the impeachment fight, Mr. President. It would be a shame if anything happened to it.

President Trump.
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Those searching for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) big break with President Trump may have found it.

"In January, a supermajority of the U.S. Senate voted for an amendment that expressed bipartisan concern about the continuing threat posed by ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria, appreciation of the long-term American security interests in Syria and the region, and support for a continued military presence in northeastern Syria," McConnell said in a statement Monday in reaction to Trump's decision to pull back American troops from the Syrian-Turkish border. "The conditions that produced that bipartisan vote still exist today."

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.