
Are Republicans better off without Ron Johnson?
CNN
Ron Johnson still hasn't made up his mind about whether he will run for a third Senate term in 2022 -- and he doesn't seem to be in any particular rush to do so.
"I don't feel any pressure to make it, really, anytime soon," Johnson told The Associated Press on Thursday of his decision, adding: "I'm undecided." Which is interesting -- on a lot of levels, but none more so than this: Would Senate Republicans have a better chance of holding the seat if Johnson decided to retire?
The retired Air Force general announced as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump after the abrupt Friday night firing of his predecessor is a respected career F-16 pilot who is described by current and former officials who served with him as a professional with a “strong moral center.”

Over the past 10 days, Vice President JD Vance put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on notice, rattled the confidence of century-old allies in Western Europe during his first foreign trip, decamped to Capitol Hill to help in delicate budget talks and delivered a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s first month to a gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital.