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, hes leveled some sharp criticism at his partys presumptive nominee.
Asked about Trumps 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 MSNBCs 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 hed like Trump to get more disciplined, and has taken particular umbrage at the candidates tendency to lash out at members of the GOP.
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Turtles vote for him..
Wasn’t Mitch one of the top reasons Trump won the nomination?
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