“Interview over. I don’t trust you anymore,” Sen. Martha McSally jokes as we’re getting ready to talk and I disclose that I’m not a dog person.

Last November, McSally’s dog Boomer sat beside her on a couch as she conceded her 2018 Senate race to her Democratic opponent, now-Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Ten months later, I’m meeting with McSally as she sits on a couch with a staffer’s white English golden retriever at her side. This time, she’s in her Senate office.