Candidate Donald Trump went to Washington DC today to meet with House and Senate republicans.  The meeting with GOP politicians from the House of Representatives is generally being characterized as very positive:
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[…]  members who have been critical of Trump, like New York Rep. Peter King, had positive reviews of the meeting.
“I would honestly say there was not one negative moment, there was no awkward moment, it was all positive, it was very united,” King told reporters. “And we’ll see where it goes. But today, if today is the way it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be an extremely effective campaign.”  (link)

However the meeting with the Senate chamber was predictably a mixed bag of never Trumpers, U.S. CoC crony consiglieres’ and decepticons. 

Donald Trump singled out his chief Republican nemesis in the Senate, Ben Sasse, during a private meeting with senators on Thursday, and also had a testy exchange with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. (link)

The Senate is where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce exerts the majority of its Wall Street lobbying manipulation because the six year term membership is considered more consequential.
In general when people talk of why it is so fundamentally important to repeal the 17th amendment, this corrupt crony-capitalistic manipulation -evidenced in the back story to this visit- is a prototypical argument why it should be the paramount legislative/constitutional change.
Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Ben Sasse and other U.S. open-border republicans (Kirk, Ayotte, McConnell, Porter, Cornyn, Hatch, Thune et al), most of whom supported candidate Ted Cruz (who lost) after supporting Rubio/Bush (who also lost), quickly rushed to the microphones to make their antagonisms part of the evening news cycle:

Trump also had words with [Jeff] Flake, another vocal critic of the GOP standard-bearer. Flake questioned Trump pointedly about his rhetoric on Latinos, including his criticism of a judge of Mexican descent presiding over a lawsuit over Trump University, according to a source in the room. (link)

Perhaps Mr. Trump’s biggest mistake is found in an NBC report that Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz met privately where Cruz accepted an invitation to speak at the GOP National Convention, but refused to mention any possibility of an endorsement.
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