Ranking the Senate's Would-Be Presidents by Partisanship
Senate Armed Services Committee Member U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks with reporters after being briefed by military officals about the prisoner exchange that freed Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at the U.S. Capitol June 10, 2014 in Washington, DC. The trade of Bergdahl for five senior Taliban officials has angered some members of Congress because they were not informed of the swap beforehand.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesLegislators running for the White House love to slam the opposing party, but former Senator Dick Lugar says it won’t fly if they get elected—and he's named some of the 2016 presidential candidates among worst offenders.
“The next president is going to have to reach out to the opposite party again and again,” said the Indiana Republican, who sought his party’s presidential nomination in 1996 and reached across the aisle to mentor a rookie Democrat named Barack Obama on foreign policy when they were Senate colleagues.