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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McConnell is everything that’s wrong with the GOPe. Go along to get along is pissing on every American and telling them it’s just raining.
I wish to add to my post #14 by stating the DEMS and RINO’S
fully understand this.
It is exactly why they have been attempting to foment a feud between President Trump and Governor Desantis. Their intent is to create a rift in the base. A divide and conquer strategy to SPLIT our votes to defeat Trump’s America and Americans FIRST agenda.
And, from too many opinions here on FreeRepublic it appears their tactic is having some success.
The only reason Arizona is doing well is because we ignored what Ducey tried to do.
Don’t forget that Chinese female partner of his
“He wants people who he knows are team players,”
TEAM SWAMP
Didn’t we just find out that McTurtle was a racist who thinks Blacks aren’t Americans?
Ditch Mitch and his bitches !
LOL, this should be a pretty formatible battle, considering they both have a very similar approval readings. /src
Mitch McConnell had six Republican primary challengers in 2020. He won with 82.8 percent of the vote. 342,660 Kentuckians voted for McConnell. His closest rival received only 25,588 votes.
Kentucky Republicans had a chance to ditch Mitch but they opted instead to inflict the nation with McConnell for another six years.
Thanks a lot Kentucky.
LOL....like ByeDung says....It’s who counts the votes!! Who counts the votes!!
Fake News
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Hey Mitch, how about what’s best for America and not yourself for a change.
What a corrupt gasbag.
Someone just kick him in his swamp-turtle nads.
He is just a compromised POFS. A self-serving curse on America.
I'll have to kick a few Benjamins to Tshibaka, funny last name notwithstanding (At least it's easy to remember)
We and a dozen or so others here had coffee with her a few months ago - just a small group in the local coffee shop.
We were suitably impressed, but some are concerned that Kelly is not prepared for how vicious Murkowski can be.
36 years in the Senate.
The Kentucky Post Turtle needs to go.
Mitch and his corporate donors-sponsors can go...
Whenever Sean Hannity has interviewed him, he didn’t challenge McConnell at all.
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