Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) allegedly told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at a recent closed-door meeting that there is a GOP “leadership vacuum” in the Senate, the Hill reported Thursday.
Coburn called out Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) for their push to defund Obamacare, which he said gave outside groups “ammo” to attack their GOP colleagues, a Republican who attended the meeting told the Hill.
The Oklahoma senator then told McConnell that he had allowed Cruz’s and Lee’s anti-Obamacare campaign to spin out of control “because there’s a leadership vacuum,” according to the anonymous Republican.
Coburn declined to comment to the Hill on the conversation.
