Updated: McConnell bids to shelter GOP senators from Trump upheaval

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is wrestling with an unenviable, arguably impossible task this election year: protecting Senate Republicans from the political upheaval caused by Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. If he fails it won’t be for lack of preparation, hard work and cold-blooded political calculation. In many ways Trump’s polar opposite, the close-mouthed, […]