FOX News: Hard-Line GOP Effort to Decentralize Senate Leader Authority Dashed by McConnell Ally

For the first time in decades, the seat for Republican party leader is up for the taking. Republicans John Thune (R-S.D.), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Rick Scott (R-FL) have all put their hats in the ring. The fight between tradition and embracing a new era for the republican party will center this contentious election.

In fact, they said, no matter who is elected as the next leader, they cannot decentralize power and democratize the GOP conference on their own.

Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, former top spokesperson to former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and former chief of staff of the Senate Republican Conference, said that “Senator Tillis is acting as a proxy for McConnell” who isn’t publicly discussing changes to the conference but is passionately arguing against certain reforms in closed-door meetings.

Learn more on this perspective from ROKK Partner Ron Bonjean as he speaks to the game plan of one of McConnell’s allies with FOX News.