If Republicans win a Senate majority in November, it will be with a dose of irony for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Across several cycles, the Senate Leadership Fund, the big-spending outside group aligned with the GOP leader, will have built that majority with tens of millions invested in electing some of his loudest critics.
There’s Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who argued McConnell was not fit to be leader after he suffered multiple health episodes last year. In 2018, SLF helped clear the Republican primary for him, according to a source familiar with the matter, and spent $21 million unseating his incumbent rival, Democrat Claire McCaskill.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who blames McConnell for what he says is decades of “grotesque dysfunction” in Washington, narrowly won a third term in the battleground state of Wisconsin with a
