Posted on 12/20/2021 12:31:38 PM PST by Trump20162020
“You come at the king,” Omar Little once advised on the HBO series The Wire, and “you best not miss.” Donald Trump made it a personal project to come at the king of the Senate GOP, and … thus far he’s still all alone in the quest. Not a single sitting Senate Republican has suggested any opposition to Mitch McConnell, and only two Senate candidates have bothered to side with Trump, Politico reports:
Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates and no senators, and it has failed to turn up a formidable challenger to run against McConnell.
McConnell has mostly let this failure speak for itself, but did offer a two-word response:
McConnell declined to comment for this story. When asked Thursday about Trump’s push to replace him as leader, the Kentucky Republican declined to engage, only telling reporters “good try.” His advisers say the GOP leader is only focused on winning back the majority — and point out that no one has ever voted against McConnell as leader, a position he has held since 2007.
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Term limits but I am just wasting my breath.
Misleading headline.
The “good try” uttered by the turtle was aimed at the reporters and not Trump.
Also this will be turtles last term but since he was just re elected we are stuck with him for 5 more years.
FAKE NEWS
McCain did the same thing. We tried to primary him numerous times. Then the Democrats would run contemptible nobodies in the general to make sure the old snake got re-elected.
Kentucky is super red, and Arizona quite red while McCain was a Senator. I don’t think it’s fair to say the Democrats weren’t actually trying to win. They poured/outright wasted a lot of money trying to oust McConnell in 2014, they really thought Alison Lundergan Grimes was the one to do it, but 2014, if you’ll recall, was a good GOP election being a midterm with Obama as President.
It’s a little early for McConnell and the swamp to declare victory, isn’t it?
What absolute schizo added 'Rand Paul' to the keywords? His name is nowhere in this article.
Put another way....
The D’s have put up big city leftist against him is why he keeps winning. He’s running against Hollywood weirdos. If they nominate a pro-gun, pro-life good old boy from the eastern or western part of the state, not Lexington or Louisville he will beat McConnell. McConnell is not that well liked by average Republicans in the state and detested by conservatives. The D alternatives have been the reason he wins.
Since 1970 KY has had only 3 Republican governors it will vote D.
Oh, and election fraud.
You didn't think the derps only fixed elections for democrats, did you? Once they have one of theirs in control of the Senate, they ain't gonna give that up.
#ChinaAintStupit
“Not a single sitting Senate Republican has suggested any opposition to Mitch McConnell…”
This windbag is missing the point entirely.
President Trump is not trying to get the current crop of RINO senators to oppose McConnell, he is rallying MAGA voters to replace the RINOs in 2022 and 2024.
And by the way, that line - if you are going to try and kill the King, don’t miss - Mitch McConnell is not the King - he is the one who missed.
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