Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We ask whether Sens. Rick Scott, Tom Cotton, and Todd Young have buyer’s remorse over their Massachusetts endorsement of a candidate who backs abortion up to birth. If they do, they aren’t saying. Plus, what is up with the polls in Arkansas? Have Democrats got a toehold in the Senate race? We break down the flawed polling methodologies that skew everything leftwards.

Will history remember Brian Shortsleeve, a Marine veteran and former venture capitalist who is competing to be the Republican nominee for the next governor of Massachusetts?