Posted on 02/13/2022 3:06:56 PM PST by simpson96
Sen. Mitch McConnell is trying to thwart former President Donald Trump's efforts to shape the GOP, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
McConnell and a team of allies have, for months, been leading a behind-the-scenes campaign in which they try to recruit potential Senate candidates who could go up against Trump-backed picks. It's an effort to gain a GOP majority in the Senate, The Times reported.
The campaign consists of phone calls, meetings, and polling memos, the paper said.
In December, Graham suggested that Trump will continue to shape the political sphere and party leaders need to find a way to work with him to avoid getting ostracized.
"If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate and you don't have a relationship with Donald Trump, you cannot be effective. So I hope we'll get on the same page here," The South Carolina lawmaker said.
The Republican party can't "grow" without him, Graham said last year.
And among Republican voters, support for Trump still remains strong. An October poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 78% of Republicans want to see Trump in the 2024 presidential election. That number went up from May by 12 percentage points.
McConnell, however, believes that Trump is "losing political altitude," The Times said.
Since leaving office, Trump has been endorsing candidates running for office across the US. (snip)
Those endorsements do not sit well with McConnell, per The Times, who characterized some of his picks as "goofballs."
A few of McConnell's prospects, who were not identified by The Times, declined his invitation to run for Senate. According to the report, they did not feel comfortable with the possibility of angering the former president.
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Mitch McConnell opposed the Tea Party, and he wanted Roy Moore to lose in Alabama. He needs to be replaced.
I’m sure he’s trying. I’m equally sure his will be a losing effort.
Mitch turns 80 next week. His wife is 10 years younger.
Hypocrite to oppose Roy Moore.
Roy Moore was “cancelled”, before “cancel” was a thing.
“Kentuckians were in a no-win situation. That kook Alison Lundergan Grimes would have done all kinds of damage. So they held their nose.”
McConnell won his Republican primary with 82.8 percent of the vote. His closest competitor only received 6.2 percent of the vote.
Kentuckians knew exactly who they were voting for in the primary and in the general. He’s been in office for over 30 years.
https://ballotpedia.org/Mitch_McConnell
McConnell brings home the pork and the bacon to Kentucky.
Kentuckians know that, like WV did with Byrd they like their government cheese.
Bush League Republicans want their party back.
They don’t want any patriots getting ideas about keeping their country.
We will not get new leadership without new membership.
If we continue to re-elect Mitch’s bitches, they will keep him as leader.
Same with McCarthy.
New members might elect new leadership.
The 145 that voted for Liz Cheney last February will keep voting for the same leadership.
Always here to prop up the Bush League Republicans.
I’m sure they appreciate your boot licking.
Someone on this forum, explain to me how mitch is any better then a democrat currently.
We can’t vote his ass out with a R, vote a d in and replace that d with one of our guys
He will be elected leader again if we do not replace his bitches.
This cycle, Amnesty Senator Rubio, Crapo, Grassley, Amnesty Senator Hoeven, Lankford, Lee, Moran, Scott, Thune and Young all need to be primaried in 2022, even if Trump endorses them.
The electoral nuclear option. Ok, I'm good with that.
Too much risk.
He’s old he’ll be gone soon.
Good because he is all bad. Once you recognize that it all makes more sense. Both he and McCarthy are anti-Trump and always have been.
More than anyone McConnell sabotaged Trump’s first term.
Yeah, I figured this article was Demonicrat BS, trying to fight the Biden drag.
McConnell’s meddling cost the GOP the senate in the past
The quicker McConnell drops dead, the better off we’ll all be.
Along the way, Mitch HAS to have committed a crime or two!
Surely he can be throttled!
This bitch McConnell is a an absolute menace to the GOP. He sat there and did nothing when the Demonrats stole 6-7 Senate seats in 2020 and as many as 11 seats in 2018. The GOP should have at least 60-65 seats. Now he wants more RINO Derp-approved losers to give the Demonrats an even wider majority over Trump reformists.
I think he absolutely enjoys being in the minority, all the while the nation sinks further into darkness.
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