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White House Watch: With Flake Leaving, Trump 'Feels Like America Is Winning'

October 25, 2017 07:15 AM

The upcoming retirements of Bob Corker and now Jeff Flake from the United States Senate will be helpful to President Donald Trump if his supporters get what they hope for: Republican successors in those seats who will be better soldiers for Trump. That’s very likely in Tennessee, where the Trump-friendly congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is an early favorite to win the GOP nomination to succeed Corker and would have a clear advantage in the Republican-heavy state.

Things are more complicated in Arizona, where the only remaining declared candidate is the super-Trumpy Kelli Ward, who has the backing of the likes of Steve Bannon but is viewed as a problematic general-election candidate against the leading Democrat,

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