Posted on 08/21/2017 2:03:19 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The approval rating of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has plummeted to just 18 percent, a survey from Public Policy Polling has found.
The poll, which surveyed 645 Kentucky voters, found that just 18 percent of respondents approved of McConnell’s current performance, compared to 74 percent who disapproved. Seven percent of people said they were not sure.
McConnell, who is the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Kentucky history, having represented the state since 1984, was recently criticized by President Trump for failing to pass the healthcare reform bill through the Senate.
“Can you believe that Mitch McConnell who has screamed Repeal & Replace for 7 years, couldn’t get it done,” Trump wrote on Twitter earlier this month. “Mitch, get back to work and put Repeal & Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a far higher approval rating of 39 percent, although he still holds a high disapproval rating of 47 percent.
Voters in Kentucky also have a far higher opinion of Trump’s job in office, giving him a 60 percent approval rating. In last year’s presidential election, Trump carried the state by 62.5 against Hillary Clinton’s 32.7 percent.
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They could have had Sen. Matt Bevin..........
I can’t believe the Kentuckians are waking up: it must be a dream!
He will probably retire in 2020..
The bastards stay forever..he 74
Then again he may die there..like McCain 81 years old
Almost as unpopular as Flake is in Arizona.
That 19 percent though controls the state; the opposition is too divided on many occasions. McC of KY must nevertheless be more unpopular in his state than is the McC of AZ.
This could be exactly the sort of pressure it takes to get McConnell to drop that stupid filibuster rule and get started on advancing Trump’s agenda.
‘Then again he may die there..like McCain’
Or like Ted Kennedy. He became terminally ill but he never resigned. He was a Senator until the day he died.
Senator mcConbelk needed to let us have what we voted for - or at least a few of the big ticket items we worked so hard for in the election ( repeal zerocare, substantially cut taxes, drain the Snake Dept Nazis and obama’s legions of islamonazi agents, moles, and useful idiots out of “our” government, immigration control / wall and repatriation of the Muslims asap). Instead, McConnell has protected the obama- sorozNazi- Islamic agenda including all all of its damage to America — intact. McConnell has to go!
The reason McTurtle keeps getting re-elected is the Republican Party of Kentucky (RPK). McTurtle owns the RPK. RPK even named their building after him. The RPK makes sure that only pre-approved, establishment candidates run for national office. They succeeded in stopping Bevin when he ran for U.S Senate against McTurtle but they weren’t able to stop Bevin from winning the governorship. I think the RPK probably favored the democrat that ran against Bevin, Jack Conway, since Conway was more of an establishment guy.
Remember when Ted Cruz accused McConnell of lying (three times) to Republicans about a deal to re-authorize the Ex-I'm bank?
-PJ
Notice the other creep McCain has been unheard from for about 2 weeks
I guess the Chemo is really doing a job on him
“With Marine guards at Leavenworth, boy-howdy, his life there would be insufferable.”
Then it follows that one major task that exists in KY, and probably most states where the GOPe runs the show and has elected officials in their camp, to take over the State GOP from those who are running it now. We’ve been fooling ourselves that getting a GOPe majority in both houses is a cure all for the politics as usual that’s been plaguing the country for decades.
“With Marine guards at Leavenworth, boy-howdy, his life there would be insufferable.”
Then it follows that one major task that exists in KY, and probably most states where the GOPe runs the show and has elected officials in their camp, to take over the State GOP from those who are running it now. We’ve been fooling ourselves that getting a GOPe majority in both houses is a cure all for the politics as usual that’s been plaguing the country for decades.
Sorry about the preaamble and the double post above. Too many fingers.
Lexington and Louisville are not waking up. They can’t wake up. They are liberal enclaves.
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