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McConnell pushes Trump to change
The Hill ^ | June 5, 2016 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 06/05/2016 6:05:20 AM PDT by maggief

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is growing increasingly critical of Donald Trump, warning him to lay off GOP officials and drop his penchant for “name calling.”

McConnell, who endorsed Trump, has been granting a steady stream of interviews to create buzz for his new book “The Long Game.” In the process, he’s leveled some sharp criticism at his party’s presumptive nominee.

Asked about Trump’s tendency to lash out at other Republicans, McConnell retorted, it “ought to stop.” "I don't like that,” he told a Baltimore radio station. “I don't think it adds any value whatsoever to the discourse. And it is something about him that I don't care for.”

He added to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that when it comes to Trump, he is “in favor of more scripts, more boring.”

The two Republicans are a study in opposites. McConnell is strategic and disciplined, while Trump has ruffled the feathers of GOP elites with his brash, unpredictable rhetoric.

McConnell has made clear he’d like Trump to get more disciplined, and has taken particular umbrage at the candidate’s tendency to lash out at members of the GOP.

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KEYWORDS: gope; mcconnell; rnc; trump
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To: Robert DeLong

Turtles vote for him..


61 posted on 06/05/2016 10:46:42 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: maggief

Wasn’t Mitch one of the top reasons Trump won the nomination?


62 posted on 06/05/2016 11:14:52 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter!)
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