A former GOP senator yesterday said two words: "filing deadlines". Why do filing deadlines matter? Because what the senator was talking about was the filing deadlines for primaries next year, which is to say, when that clears, when that passes, when these lawmakers know who is or is not running against them in primaries next year, then you'll see even more freedom, even more independence.”
“Because these guys care about their seats and about their reelections,” he elaborated. “And if they see that they don't have a primary challenger by a date certain next year, 2026, they can start saying what they actually think about what [conservative columnist] George Will calls the ‘moral slum’ of this administration.”