There is a battle brewing over who will succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as leader of the Senate Republicans. The fight should be less over personalities and more over how the candidates promise to run the Senate, a broken institution in need of reform.

The battle between Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), and possibly also a dark horse candidate such as Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), is intensifying. The Hill reported that Thune announced “that he will transfer $4 million to the National Republican Senatorial Committee to overcome the Senate Democrats’ growing cash advantage.”

Getting Republicans into the majority is important, but equally as important is making sure that the Senate is reformed to reestablish the deliberative nature of the body.

A candidate for Republican leader must pledge to reject bad ideas that will make the Senate less deliberative. Vice President Harris’s recent call to abolish the legislative filibuster to restore abortion rights should be tossed aside. Both Cornyn and Thune have........

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