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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He wants Senators that can be bought and stay bought.
McConnell deserves credit for holding the Republicans together to keep Biden’s BBB from passing.
McConnell doesn’t deserve credit for anything. He is a POS.
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The people that haven’t figured out Mitch is Team Biden are the same peeps that kept blaming the News Org that reported that Pence wouldn’t return Trump’s calls, and blamed fake news when it was reported that Pence filed a court motion to oppose him blindly accepting all Electors.
Without Pence calling any of the reports false, at the time.
Now, they’re shocked McConnell is Team Biden.
Zero Subpoenas in 1,460 days of the Republican Senate.
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“He wants people who he knows are team players, people who are interested in solutions?” Trump “players” are on a different team. Is Lisa Murkowski a team player? A gutless Senator spoke on the condition of anonymity. “McConnell condemned the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and said Trump had ‘provoked’ it.” That really sounds like a team player. “McConnell’s first priority is to take back the Senate majority.” BS! His first priority is to maintain his power. Otherwise Judge Roy Moore would be in the Senate.
No split. DeSantis will be re-elected this year and will serve out his term until 2026. Trump will be re-re-elected in 2024. DeSantis will be elected POTUS in 2028 with the full backing of President Trump.
WHAT “solutions” exactly are Mitch and his GOPe comrades interested in? Don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer.
The Turd has his minions in the Senate.
Trump has tens of millions of GOP voters.
Trump should stop endorsing Mitch’s bitches.
Ditch China Shipping Mitch. America First
Amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority.
It’s been the goal since the Bush League took over the GOP in 1989.
Turtle is at war with US!
A local conservative talk show host routinely refers to the Governor as Ducifer. Doug Ducey is an absolutely worthless McCain clique career politican. Kari Lake , who is running to replace him , wants election integrity as her number one task. Controlling the border is her other concern. She is not in the game for a life long career. She was asked to run by people who wanted someone who would fight the left as hard as they fight against us.
Dear Mitch,
What makes you think John Thune has leadership qualities?
He is the Minority Whip in the republican party and yet we hear NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HE STANDS FOR, WHAT HE CARES ABOUT, WHAT HIS IDEAS AND POLICIES ARE.
He is a lump. I have more leadership skills than he has./s
Let him go...don’t encourage him to run again. Let him retire to do what he likes best. Complain about a man who really cares about the Country...President Donald Trump.
He is NOT doing you...us...any favors with his ennui.
His best years are behind him, and he appears aged and not working with a full deck, lost in the woods with Biden and Billy Clinton...
AGE MATTERS...these old dudes and dames prove it...
example= DIFI, Pelosi, time to put TERM LIMITS INTO EFFECT...
There is no such battle, Mitch is toast!
Don’t hold back there! /s
( I don’t disagree)
He has minions. If the GOP takes the Senate back this year the McConnell's vote to be leader will be overwhelming.
Yeah their “solutions” are the problem.
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