McConnell tries to shelter GOP senators from Trump upheaval

Thursday, June 30, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is wrestling with an unenviable, arguably impossible task this election year: protecting Senate Republicans from the political upheaval caused by Donald Trump's presidential candidacy.

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