What Senate duo are the best friends?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Ossoff and Warnock seem like total bros and good friends, although it very well could be one that's been around in office much longer.

[Roll Roons]

-Bennet and Hickenlooper
-Warner and Kaine
-Crapo and Risch

[Horus]

Aren't Capito and Manchin good friends?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Warren and Markey are probably up there

[Ferguson97]

Bernie and Leahy are probably buds, and I can see King and Collins being friendly.

[Roll Roons]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I wouldn't be so sure that ideology is a huge factor in answering this question. There are some cases, like Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, where it is genuinely difficult to imagine a state's senators giving each other the time of day because they just cut such vastly different figures politically, but there are many high-profile examples of lawmakers who came from different parties or different factions of the same party who were personally close--Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, Al Franken and Jim DeMint, Mark Meadows and Elijah Cummings in the House, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola on the state level back in Alaska.

[Santander]

I wouldn't be so sure that ideology is a huge factor in answering this question. There are some cases, like Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, where it is genuinely difficult to imagine a state's senators giving each other the time of day because they just cut such vastly different figures politically, but there are many high-profile examples of lawmakers who came from different parties or different factions of the same party who were personally close--Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, Al Franken and Jim DeMint, Mark Meadows and Elijah Cummings in the House, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola on the state level back in Alaska.

I would actually argue that, in many ways, there's probably an inverse relationship between ideological similarity and personal closeness because sharing the same constituency inevitably leads to a degree of rivalry. The more ideologically similar two people are, the more they will tend to focus on their differences, while two colleagues who don't agree on much have more incentive to try to build bridges. I think Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe's notoriously frosty relationship was more driven by this kind of rivalry than personal differences.

[Roll Roons]

I wouldn't be so sure that ideology is a huge factor in answering this question. There are some cases, like Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, where it is genuinely difficult to imagine a state's senators giving each other the time of day because they just cut such vastly different figures politically, but there are many high-profile examples of lawmakers who came from different parties or different factions of the same party who were personally close--Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, Al Franken and Jim DeMint, Mark Meadows and Elijah Cummings in the House, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola on the state level back in Alaska.

Kevin McCarthy spoke at my university in spring 2019 and mentioned that he was really good friends with Joe Kennedy III.

[Cyrusman]

Liz Cheney is a Democrat at this point. She is just stubborn about switching parties. She actively endorses and campaigns for Democrats while never saying one positive thing about ANY current Republican's. It's not just a Trump thing for her. She is a Democrat at this point.

[Nyvin]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

[South Dakota Democrat]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

He's probably too busy making Horcruxes to make friends.

[Alben Barkley]

Liz Cheney is a Democrat at this point. She is just stubborn about switching parties. She actively endorses and campaigns for Democrats while never saying one positive thing about ANY current Republican's. It's not just a Trump thing for her. She is a Democrat at this point.

What does this have to do with this thread?

And since the GOP is the Party of Trump, just about EVERYTHING is a Trump thing with them. Campaigning against his endorsed fascist election deniers like Kari Lake does not make you a Democrat.

[TheFonz]

Cruz and Lee

[Progressive Pessimist]

Baldwin and Johnson.

No, seriously, I would say Kaine and Warner, they go way back.

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

Deservedly.

Cruz and Lee

They're the only two who can tolerate each other.

[Coldstream]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Is it possible for anyone to have any other kind of relationship with Rick Scott? I’ve never heard anyone (including his own party) say anything positive about him.

[Person Man]

You think some of them do happy hour/pizza and beer or any of them smoke each other up yet? You know, things that good bruvs do in real life that isn’t  the crazy trailer park sh**t that Gaetz is into?

[Dani Rose]

I wouldn't be so sure that ideology is a huge factor in answering this question. There are some cases, like Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, where it is genuinely difficult to imagine a state's senators giving each other the time of day because they just cut such vastly different figures politically, but there are many high-profile examples of lawmakers who came from different parties or different factions of the same party who were personally close--Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, Al Franken and Jim DeMint, Mark Meadows and Elijah Cummings in the House, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola on the state level back in Alaska.

As I recall, Obama and Coburn were friends in spite of the staggeringly huge political gap between them both as colleagues and as President and opposition Senator.

[darklordoftech]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

Why is Rick Scott hated by his fellow GOP Senators?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

These people aren't friends they are coworkers just like we are at jobs I am guessing Ds and Rs duo are friends like Casey and Fetterman and Peters and STABENOW and Ernst and Grassley I doubt that Vance and Brown are friends the way that OH Senate race turned out he, Vance was the most polarizing figure but Markey and Joe Kennedy don't hate each other or dislike each other like Vance and Brown but Brown will respect Vance as a co worker

Greg Landsman is the heir Apparent to Tim Ryan for sure to take on Vance in 28

[Zedonathin2020]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

They're to us like Bernie is to the GOP.

[Hope For A New Era]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Rick Scott doesn't seem to get along with anyone.  I think he and Ted Cruz are probably the two least liked Senators in the Senate.

Why is Rick Scott hated by his fellow GOP Senators?

because he's rick scott, next question

[Schiff for Senate]

Rubio also had a very good relationship with Nelson. I wonder if that's part of the reason his relationship with Rick Scott is famously poor.

Details?

[Schiff for Senate]

I wouldn't be so sure that ideology is a huge factor in answering this question. There are some cases, like Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson, where it is genuinely difficult to imagine a state's senators giving each other the time of day because they just cut such vastly different figures politically, but there are many high-profile examples of lawmakers who came from different parties or different factions of the same party who were personally close--Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, Al Franken and Jim DeMint, Mark Meadows and Elijah Cummings in the House, Sarah Palin and Mary Peltola on the state level back in Alaska.

Kevin McCarthy spoke at my university in spring 2019 and mentioned that he was really good friends with Joe Kennedy III.

Well in that case I’m glad Kennedy got kicked to the curb then - any Democrat who is friends with that pathetic, spineless, cowardly, craven oaf of a man should lose their seat.

[Mr. Smith]

No idea if still true, but Cory Booker and Rand Paul used to be real chums.

Booker and Tester seem to have a bit of a bros thing going on too.