Washington Post reports Mitch McConnell has urged Phil Bryant to consider Cochran seat

The Washington Post ran as story Thursday quoting two anonymous sources that assert that . . .

• Governor Phil Bryant attended the State of the Union as a guest of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
• They dined together and McConnell urged Bryant to consider appointing himself to the US Senate should Thad Cochran resign

I am grateful he reinforced his commitment to those values tonight in his State of the Union. I was honored to attend. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/FqlIyU1n7c

— Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) January 31, 2018

The article asserted that sources close to Bryant said that it was not particularly likely that the suggested scenario would come to pass.