Posted on 10/04/2022 12:01:44 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) support for the Electoral Count Act is renewing the schism between him and former President Trump, setting up a vote likely to divide the GOP caucus.
Supporters are hopeful that McConnell’s backing will lead to a majority of the Senate GOP conference backing the legislation, drafted in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that many blame on Trump.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a co-sponsor of the bill, said he believes 20 to 30 Senate Republicans could ultimately back the proposal, which is expected to be voted on during the lame-duck session after Election Day. He added that McConnell’s move will be a big reason why.
“Mitch’s endorsement of the final bill that came out of the Rules Committee was very important. If he had not supported it, it would have been tough for us to get a large vote.” Portman told The Hill. “Mitch has a lot of credibility in this area,” he added, pointing to McConnell’s long-standing opposition to federalizing elections.
At least three more Senate Republicans — John Thune (S.D.), John Cornyn (Texas) and Bill Cassidy (La.) — on Wednesday threw their support behind the push to pass the bill. Cassidy said he is “temperamentally supportive” of the legislation, which passed overwhelmingly through the Senate Rules Committee last Tuesday.
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I hope Trump can succeed in creating more McConnell haters.
That guy has way too many apologists for the amount of damage he has done to the conservative cause during his years as a senator.
As long as RINOs exist, they will be just as complicit in the destruction of this country as the Left.
Get rid of these M’Fers in our party.
Mitch is a treacherous snake. Anyone who would save a slime ball like Murkowski is evil.
I so despise these vermin who truly want to destroy the Constitution and the freedom of the USA, they deserve to be tried for their crimes.
Mitch is old, there are some judgements that no one can avoid.
In the mean time, lets expose his crooked antics for what they are.
McConnell is as bad, or worse than, as Paul Ryan.
Both Mitch McConnell & Kevin McCarthy are nothing but “Weak Sisters”....and they must go immediately. Trump...get rid of these deadbeats....we conservatives need 100% street fighters. Our wonderful free, country is being killed by the current Democrat Party...led by the buffoon, moron, criminal, Joe Biden!!! “AMEN”!!!
The fight is with the GOP criminal McConnell needs to go
I ZOT out to Mitch McConnell and fart in his geeral direction.
The man is powned by China, just like Biden is.Very bad for our country.
He’s gotta go. No question about it.
Tough for them to get a large vote without McConnell because he has a lot of credibility in this area. Good to see all those leaders in the Senate thinking for themselves on important legislation.
Elected officials need a mandatory retirement age or term limits. It’s quite apparent that after a certain number of years in public service, they no longer serve the public. I think their retirement ag needs to be the medium of minimum and maximum retirement age to collect SS.
So it would be 65.
Keep voting for the “lesser of two evils” and keep getting Democrats in positions authentic Republicans should hold.
Mitch’s self life has run out. Get rid of rinos.
There is another one waiting in the wings; John Cornyn. He’s a Mitch clone and just as bad. Texas knows it too and will get rid of him when he’s up in 2024.
Beating an incumbent is very difficult....however I’d like to see Col. West (who I believe ran for Governor in the last primary did that mainly to develop a broader name-recognition in Texas, will primary Cornyn when he’s up next time. An Alan West in the Senate would be stupendous!
The Turtle did one good thing:He kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court.
Lately though, he’s been a RINO FIRST CLASS.
So, should the GOP recapture the Senate, Mitch the B*tch will be Senate majority leader again?
What a pyric victory.
Our government in DC is for DC not the people. Period.
Electoral Count Act = Vote Killer
Call it what is it 2020 reruns
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