Posted on 01/24/2022 6:17:54 PM PST by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is waging a quiet campaign to keep his caucus from getting a whole lot Trumpier after the midterms.
"He wants people who he knows are team players, people who are interested in solutions," said a GOP senator who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering fellow Republicans. "There are a lot of people who are running for office these days who have different agendas."
In Alaska's Senate race, McConnell is backing incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict former President Donald Trump on impeachment charges last year. She faces a Trump-backed challenge from Kelly Tshibaka.
In Arizona, McConnell is trying to recruit Gov. Doug Ducey, who angered Trump by refusing to overturn his state's electoral votes, to run in a Republican primary that already features multiple Trump-aligned hopefuls. Many Washington Republicans are concerned that the party could blow its chance to defeat Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly if it nominates a candidate who is seen as too extreme.
And over several conversations, McConnell privately lobbied his top lieutenant, Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., to run for a fourth term rather than leave open a seat in South Dakota, which could easily nominate and elect a Trump-style Republican. Trump has issued an open call to Republicans in the state to run against Thune, and shortly after Thune announced that he would seek re-election, one of Trump's pollsters conducted a survey that suggested he could be vulnerable.
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We are sick and tired of their “solutions.”
Murkowski? C’mon Mitch, we can do better.
The problem is that the turtle is playing for team China and Trump is for Team USA.
Ditch is NOT about actual solutions to issues.
McConnell needs to go. The faster the better.
McConnell should learn to cooperate.
This does not have to be a war.
How many years has McConnell been there?...yeah...like we want HIM Or his Minions!
When he dies of old age after going Senile while still a Senator... I will feel similar to what I did when Mccain kicked the bucket. Not quite on the same level but close enough
Trump wins this 100 x 1.
McConnell is about done.
Has this disgusting excuse for a GOP senator said bleep about Biden starting a war in Ukraine?
The RINOs and Lamestream media have the same nightmare — namely that Trump-endorsed challengers will unseat the RINO traitors in the primaries this year.
McConnell=Good Ole Boy Club self-serving RINO’s (AKA Democrat Lite)
Trump=America and Americans FIRST.
As Reagan said, it is a Time for Choosing.
I will never vote for Doug Ducey for anything again. D-Bag Ducey did nothing to fight the Biden administration’s Covid tyranny and gave The communist ‘Red for Ed’ movement everything they demanded in abject surrender.
The Mandarin Chinless Turtle is the enemy of America First. I fu—ing hate him.
McConnell head needs to be permanently shoved into its shell.
McBrandon
LOLOLOLO. now that is what I am going to have to call him.
I’m voting for Trump and those he endorses, no wonder no else.
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