Posted on 02/16/2021 6:36:26 PM PST by Candor7
Former President Donald Trump issued a lengthy statement attacking U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY) on Tuesday:
The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.
In 2020, I received the most votes of any sitting President in history, almost 75,000,000. Every incumbent House Republican won for the first time in decades, and we flipped 15 seats, almost costing Nancy Pelosi her job.
Republicans won majorities in at least 59 of the 98 partisan legislative chambers, and the Democrats failed to flip a single legislative chamber from red to blue. And in “Mitch’s Senate,” over the last two election cycles, I single-handedly saved at least 12 Senate seats, more than eight in the 2020 cycle alone—and then came the Georgia disaster, where we should have won both U.S. Senate seats, but McConnell matched the Democrat offer of $2,000 stimulus checks with $600. How does that work? It became the Democrats’ principal advertisement, and a big winner for them it was. McConnell then put himself, one of the most unpopular politicians in the United States, into the advertisements. Many Republicans in Georgia voted Democrat, or just didn’t vote, because of their anguish at their inept Governor, Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and the Republican Party, for not doing its job on Election Integrity during the 2020 Presidential race.
It was a complete election disaster in Georgia, and certain other swing states. McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will.
My only regret is that McConnell “begged” for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him. He went from one point down to 20 points up, and won. How quickly he forgets. Without my endorsement, McConnell would have lost, and lost badly. Now, his numbers are lower than ever before, he is destroying the Republican side of the Senate, and in so doing, seriously hurting our Country.
Likewise, McConnell has no credibility on China because of his family’s substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat.
Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country. Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership.
Prior to the pandemic, we produced the greatest economy and jobs numbers in the history of our Country, and likewise, our economic recovery after Covid was the best in the world. We cut taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Vets, became energy independent, built the wall and stopped the massive inflow of illegals into our Country, and so much more. And now, illegals are pouring in, pipelines are being stopped, taxes will be going up, and we will no longer be energy independent.
This is a big moment for our country, and we cannot let it pass by using third rate “leaders” to dictate our future!
Opening Salvo. The campaign for Republican control of the house and Senate in 2022 has begun.
In the process President Trump will become the head of the GOP.
Or, perhaps a new party.
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Excellent statement.
Republican control of the House and Senate did us no good in 2017.
First order of business is wresting control from the Bush League Republicans.
They are Assistant Democrats and they always will be.
There won’t be a new party,that’s pretty clear now. President Trump fully intends to become leader of the GOP.
And he will do it.
No more grassroots contributions to the Two-Bit Turtle.
I think he will.
People are fed up with the GOP.
It is back in “shrink” mode now.
He endorsed Romney and McCain and Grahamnesty too.
Nancy will choke on her icecream if that happens. I can’t wait!
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The Republicans ushered in Biden.
In four years, the GOP Senate wouldn’t issue a Subpoena on the State Dept Activists trying to take out Trump, they wouldn’t issue one on the Dem Ukrainian Slush Country. They wouldn’t issue one on the Biden family fortunes, as they promised repeatedly.
Why would anyone send them back to further Defend Biden’s and Camel’s?
No one in their right mind.
Trump is standing tall, as usual.
So we need leadership to represent middle and working class voters. It looks like President Trump pointed the way forward, it is our job to select the right leaders. Mitch is stuck in a past that never was.
Can we hope for a rally?
It really is battered wife syndrome.
No matter how much abuse the GOP dishes out, and this one was YUGE, they just want to believe that this time it will be different.
Trump’s top priority is Trump.
Mitch is the leader of the GOP Senate and will likely remain so.
Now THAT my friends is what a smackdown looks like
I read that President Trump is spending a lot of planning time with Cory Lewendowski.
You know what that means don't you!
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