In the congressional budget fight that shut down the federal government for 16 days and threatened default, the archenemy of many Senate Republicans was not any Democrat.
It was, by many accounts, the Senate Conservatives Fund, an outside group whose stated mission is to elect the most conservative Republican candidates to the Senate, but which has lately taken a uniquely aggressive stand against sitting Republican senators who eschew hard-line positions.
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