Here Are the GOP Senators Who Could Take Down Trump's Cabinet Picks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Yet it's that lack of appetite for a public showdown with Trump that will make the first months of the new Congress so telling.
39% : Not that he or most any other GOP senator will want to break from Trump.
38% : The challenge will not just be how willing they are to thwart Trump, but whether they will be willing to do so with more than one nominee.
33% : More than the hassle of an expensive primary and general election two years on may be the more immediate question of whether a dealmaker like Tillis can find satisfaction in the Senate during another time of Trump.
31% : Sen. Jerry Moran (Kansas): The low-key former House member -- he and Thune arrived in the same class to that chamber -- has avoided tangling with Trump.
30% : But if he concludes he will lose a Republican primary, he'll be free to vote as boldly as he did when he was one of only seven Senate Republicans to convict Trump.
29% : Seriously, though, the Judiciary Committee chair has not shown much interest in challenging Trump previously.
27% : Will DeWine pick a placeholder in his image, somebody who may defy Trump, or a more MAGA-friendly figure who can survive a primary?
20% : But like Collins, Tillis is staring at the prospect of more conservative Republicans eager to pounce should he break from Trump.
12% : McConnell is the consummate partisan -- look no further than his return to Trump after prematurely consigning him to history's ash heap.
7% : Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Ark.): Murkowski is the other remaining GOP senator who voted to convict Trump of impeachment charges in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol.
4% : Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.): Like Collins, Cassidy voted to convict Trump of impeachment charges nearly four years ago.

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