Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., managed to rebuke both President Donald Trump and Democrats with one vote today. The Senate voted 68-23 to advance nonbinding legislation warning against a “precipitous withdrawal” from Syria and Afghanistan. Trump announced in December that the United States would pull out of Syria, causing considerable confusion throughout the Pentagon and among US allies.

Why it matters: McConnell effectively forced Democrats to choose between implicitly siding with Trump and angering elements of their anti-war base.

“American national security interests require continued commitment to our missions there,” McConnell said on the floor today. “But I guess some Senate Democrats didn’t want to vote on these important subjects. Perhaps it could have put some of my colleagues with aims beyond the Senate at odds with parts of the far left.”

Indeed, virtually every senator rumored to be considering a run for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination voted against the legislation, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., also voted no, as did a handful of Republicans, including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and John Kennedy of Louisiana.