Welcome to Washington Secrets, which will be leaving the Bad Bunny discourse to others. Instead, we have a look inside the Republican Senate retreat to Palm Beach (including who won the pickleball tournament) and we take the temperature of the mess that is the GOP nomination race in Texas. Hot, damn hot, is the answer. …

Senate Republicans fled Washington for a weekend of sun, pickleball, and strategy in Florida, where they gathered to plot just how to hold the upper chamber in difficult midterm elections in November.