“I question whether he runs again,” Mr. Corker said. “He’s having difficulty handling the situation. I don’t think he understands the seriousness of what he just did in Syria.”…
Perhaps no Republicans are more on edge than those who will be on the ballot with the president in 2020. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, perhaps the most vulnerable Republican senator up for re-election, suggested the president needed to recognize the damage he was inflicting with the suburban voters who are so pivotal to the party…
Lanhee Chen, a Hoover Institution fellow who advised Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012, said Mr. Trump was sorely testing the strength of his political support. Mr. Chen, who counsels a number of influential congressional Republicans, said Mr. Trump’s drastic shift in the national security arena had the potential to be destabilizing on the right.
“The change in policy in Syria really highlighted the tension that exists between mainstream conservatives and elements of the Trump coalition,” Mr. Chen said. “We’ve always known these tensions were there, but now we’re actually seeing it in a very visceral way.”
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