Amy Walter:
We are now how many years in this? We’re eight years into Donald Trump. If you are a United States Senator, a Republican United States Senator, and you haven’t already figured out where your lines are that you’re going to draw, then that’s a problem.
It was — in 2017, you could be surprised. Oh, wait, what? He said this, he did that. Responding to tweets, how am I going to respond to this? How am I going to respond to that? By now, this is all pretty predictable, his unpredictability.
And so I think we’re going to see a lot of this about picking your fights, deciding which are the things for which you’re going to go and either make enemies with Donald Trump or you’re going to split with the party and which things you’re going to go along with, even where you might disagree.
What’s fascinating to me too is watch how Democrats are responding to a lot of these picks as well, where you’re hearing people like Senator John Fetterman saying, let’s not just go crazy with every one of these picks. You see Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, having nice things to say about RFK Jr.
I think both Democrats and Republicans now coming to the realization that this is about picking the right battles at the right time.
