Posted on 12/23/2022 9:07:32 AM PST by RandFan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said former President Trump’s political power is “diminished” following his endorsed candidates’ lackluster performance in the midterm elections and vowed to find “quality” candidates for Senate races in 2024.
“Here’s what I think has changed: I think the former president’s political clout has diminished,” McConnell said in a interview with NBC News released on Friday.
Despite predictions of a “red wave” in this November’s midterm elections, Republicans lost ground in the Senate and only managed to secure a slim majority in the House. Many in the GOP have since placed the blame on Trump and the far-right candidates he supported.
“We lost support that we needed among Independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party — largely made by the former president — that we were sort of nasty and tended toward chaos,” McConnell told NBC.
“And oddly enough, even though that subset of voters did not approve of President Biden, they didn’t have enough confidence in us in several instances to give us the majority we needed,” he continued.
McConnell initially voiced concerns in August about Republicans’ chances in the Senate, pointing to a “candidate quality” issue in an apparent reference to the extreme candidates endorsed by Trump.
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I hope the newspaper headlines on Monday are: “Turtle chokes to death on turkey.”
Oz and Walker were Trump’s endorsees, and they were pretty bad picks.
McConnell is a democrat Trump hater in a republican suit.GTH Mitch!
Or the best of a bad lot.
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McConnell’s and Pence’s picks did far worse.
Fake Narrative
Says the UniParty hack POS that fought every one of em..
Says the UniParty hack POS that’s snatched RAT defeat from the jaws of victory so many times, we can’t even count em all anymore.
Says the UniParty hack POS that’s betrayed the entire GOP base.
It’s THIS UniParty hack that’s “diminished” and needs to be gone.
He just screwed the House... and the entire Republican party..
Isn’t it time for Hell to call McConnell home and his CCP linked wife back to China?
No more voting for me, Mitch. I despise you and the people around you.
Quality candidates = compromised team players.
RINO traitors are public enemy number one. Democrats would have no power were it not for RINO traitors.
Hard to beat election fraud, especially when the leadership of you own party does nothing to counter!
McConnell must go, or the Republican party needs to split.
You fake seminar posters are disgusting. Give it up and get out of here.
Let it die.
From an earlier reply:
Both the 2020 election the 2022 election have demonstrated that neither the facts on the ground nor the issues debated in the press (or ignored by the press) are cogent enough to overcome the infrastructure advantage owned by the Democrats.
If the Hunter Biden laptop story could not gain traction either in 2020 or in 2024, we must acknowledge that there is something going on beyond our capacity to win elections when every historical precedent tells us we should sail to victory.
The problem is not only Rona McDaniel, although of course she has to go, the problem is not only misfeasance by Mitch McConnell, the problem is not poor candidates (Doctor Oz, for example, was a reasonably able candidate who should have won in the conditions that obtained in Pennsylvania). No, the problem is best seen as a problem of infrastructure.
We all know the Democrats are advantaged in the media to a value of hundreds of millions of dollars but they are also advantaged in the gathering and spending of campaign funds. More, the Democrats have disproportionately more organizations supplying the party with foot soldiers who can deliver live voters or who could harvest and transport dubious ballots.
Gramsci, communist of The Frankfurt School, and his followers have accomplished their long walk through the institutions so they have co-opted virtually every political, governmental, nongovernmental, cultural and educational agency in the land. All the millions of people associated with these institutions, dependent on these institutions for their rice bowls to be filled, are likely Democrat voters or they cannot prosper within the institution.
Perhaps the most important institution subverted by Democrats is the educational establishment which is actively churning out Democrats from kindergarten through postgraduate studies. By the time these indoctrinated individuals approach the voting booth the indoctrination is so complete that distractions like Hunter Biden's laptop pointing to gross corruption of a presidential candidate is simply discounted. In other words, the quality of the candidate on the Democrat side does not matter, hence, the president can be elected who cannot safely venture from his basement and a Senator can be elected who humiliates himself in debate. These voters are simply conditioned as though they were in a Skinner box and the stimulus that comes from the Republican Party simply does not register.
For those individuals who do not reflexively vote Democrat as a result of indoctrination, the Democrats have brilliantly exploited data mining. Data mining tells marketers your shoe size and it tells Democrats your electoral proclivities and vulnerabilities which they exploit because they have foot soldiers who will expend the shoe leather to personally approach data mined voters whose vulnerabilities have been psychologically evaluated. These foot soldiers have been prompted to exploit those vulnerabilities on an individual and personal level.
All of these features come together to create a formidable infrastructure that increasingly and inevitably produces Democrat victories.
Occasionally a charismatic figure like Donald Trump can break through, especially if the Democrats were asleep at the switch out of hubris and disregard for Trump. But overall, and increasingly, the fate of the Republican Party is slipping out of their control. Unless and until the degree and nature of the problem is understood, we will continue to be frustrated and in our frustration we will point fingers at individuals, at candidates, and we will continue to believe that we can win next time if only we can get an honest count.
The infrastructure problem has taken us well beyond these fixes.
Voters job you old cockled hack. Go count your money and shut up.
F U Mitch
GET THE F OUT OF HERE, B^TCH!
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