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McConnell calls Trump a 'fading brand' in Woodward-Costa book
The Hill ^ | 09/23/2021 | Caroline Vakil

Posted on 09/23/2021 9:32:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) referred to former President Trump as a “fading brand,” according to a new book published by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, the Lexington Herald Ledger reported.

According to their new book “Peril,” McConnell reportedly called Trump “a fading brand. Retired. OTTB as they say in Kentucky — off-the-track Thoroughbred.”

McConnell, often a target of Trump's ire, also reportedly said that he saw a trend indicating that the Republican Party was starting to move away from Trumpism, reportedly saying “Sucking up to Donald Trump is not a strategy that works."

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Turkeyneck and his Chicom Old Lady were looking in the mirror.


21 posted on 09/23/2021 9:43:40 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: wiseprince

> The more they hate Trump the more I want him back and the more we refuse anyone else. <

I couldn’t agree more.


22 posted on 09/23/2021 9:45:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

23 posted on 09/23/2021 9:48:56 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Unfortunately Trump has been banned from Facebook, twitter, youtube... Media brainwashed people into thinking Trump colluded with Russia, tried to use Ukraine to damage Biden, screwed models with a pregnant wife, and called Rosie O’Donnell fat. Trump also lost a ton of money in the pandemic. And Trump is getting up in years, people will rightly wondering about the wisdom of electing another old person. That and Trump may be in financial trouble with his real estate that suffered under the lockdowns— I believe he was specifically barred from receiving any bailout money.

Bottom line: DeSantis has a better shot. That’s where my money is.


24 posted on 09/23/2021 9:49:31 AM PDT by bhl
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To: ChicagoConservative27

25 posted on 09/23/2021 9:50:22 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: All

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That’s why McConnell supports Liz Cheney and is moving money to her Campaign.

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26 posted on 09/23/2021 9:54:34 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So says the representative of a failing civilization. A disaster that he was instrumental in bringing about.


27 posted on 09/23/2021 9:55:58 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is this “McConnell”?


28 posted on 09/23/2021 9:57:02 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: ProudDeplorable

What we see in America today is what mitch helped cause


29 posted on 09/23/2021 9:57:56 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: TheDon

Meanwhile Lindsay Graham is trying to play peacemaker between Trump and McConnell.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10017719/Graham-tries-help-Trump-McConnell-bury-hatchet.html


30 posted on 09/23/2021 9:58:07 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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Miotch is a total wish sandwich guy. Trump is pop culture to him, except when the President had him by the ears.

The problem is the Senate lifers. You want to fix this? Put the Presidency and the Senate on identical 4-year terms -- there will be enough whipsawing to ensure no Senator serves more than 2 or 3 terms.

31 posted on 09/23/2021 10:00:27 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: bhl

I don’t disagree with any of your opening points, though do note that facebook et al will ban de Santis and anyone right of Romney. Just as I originally backed Cruz because Trump had no political track record, donated to Ted Kennedy’s campaign, and once described himself as pro-choice, his actual performance gives him a prior claim on my support as things now stand.


32 posted on 09/23/2021 10:00:27 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: TheDon

We’ll see how “fading” Trump’s brand is at the upcoming rally in Georgia Saturday.

I predict a full house plus thousands outside and even more watching on RSBN and other streaming broadcasts.

It’s Mitch and Woodward who are “fading.”


33 posted on 09/23/2021 10:00:46 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: bhl
Media brainwashed people into thinking Trump colluded with Russia, tried to use Ukraine to damage Biden, screwed models with a pregnant wife, and called Rosie O’Donnell fat.

All lies! Well maybe one is true ...


34 posted on 09/23/2021 10:06:15 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

take a photo of all 3 (Trump Woodward and Mitch) and do a man on the street...

you’ll know who everyone knows real quick (it’s trump, its not really that hard to figure out)


35 posted on 09/23/2021 10:08:14 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Make Turtleneck Extinct.


36 posted on 09/23/2021 10:08:16 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mitch’s comments haven’t aged well. Trump is more popular than ever. And GOP candidates beg for his endorsement.


37 posted on 09/23/2021 10:12:13 AM PDT by kabar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If there was any remaining doubt that Mitch is out of touch with the voters in his own party, this statement just removed it.


38 posted on 09/23/2021 10:18:56 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: Bookshelf

Probably the Chinese!


39 posted on 09/23/2021 10:22:33 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: budj

So, Mitch believed that supporting the ideals and policies of his party’s elected leader is “sucking up?” This guy has got to go.


40 posted on 09/23/2021 10:24:20 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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