All three cited sources were independently re-verified as real, live, and accurately quoted (NBC News, Stars and Stripes, CNN). The prior rating's outcome holds under adversarial and same-standard scrutiny. Key context checked: Republicans did NOT win the Senate majority in 2022 (Democrats held 51-49), so the promise's literal precondition ('a Republican Senate majority') did not exist in the 118th Congress. Despite that, McConnell personally LED the substance from the minority: he drove the ~$60B Ukraine aid supplemental to enactment against fierce resistance within his own party, calling it possibly 'the most important' issue of his career, and framing an 'axis of evil: China, Russia and Iran' with calls for 'swift and decisive action.' The precondition then materialized (delayed): Republicans won the Senate in the 2024 elections and McConnell took the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee (the exact oversight perch described), where he is explicitly pushing a higher defense topline, military modernization, restored Ukraine aid, and countering the 'gravest array of threats since the Second World War' from Russia/China/Iran plus shoring up Pacific allies. This is active leadership across the promise's core planks (Ukraine, modernization, China; Iran consistently framed if less individually enacted), well beyond a single supporting vote, hence CHAMPIONED (+0.75) rather than FULL (agenda ongoing, not every element enacted), PARTIAL (understates the leadership), or NO_OPPORTUNITY (he had and used the opportunity). A same-standard test — a politician who led a major effort against his own party AND took the relevant committee chair to drive the agenda — would earn CHAMPIONED for any party. Confidence 0.85 retained.