Any race to replace Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell would likely center on three veteran senators who have largely similar profiles and dispositions and who have each built alliances as part of the GOP leadership team.
Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), the whip and second-in-command; John Cornyn (R-Texas), a prolific fundraiser and former whip, and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the party’s third-ranking senator, are seen as the most likely successors if the 81-year-old McConnell has to step aside amid increasingly public health concerns. The “three Johns,” as they’re sometimes called, are the top names in what could be the first seriously contested ...
