Posted on 10/17/2017 5:54:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON Donald Trump on Monday threw a life raft to the most unpopular Republican in Congress, publicly expressing his support for Mitch McConnell and pledging to ask his anti-establishment friends to leave the Senate leader and his friends alone.
Until Monday, the Senate Majority Leader’s reputation as a canny tactician had taken a beating this year. Major legislation stalled. Critics from his own party called for his ouster. His approval rating was far below that of other congressional leaders from either party.
Then along came Trump on Monday, standing beside the Kentucky Republican in the Rose Garden, praising him as a leader who shares his agenda and pledging to ask McConnell’s chief antagonist to lay off the Senate leader’s GOP allies.
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We will listen as well as we did about Luther Strange.
The amnesty weasels must go!
Hatch, Heller and Flake in 2018
Alexander and Graham in 2020
Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio in 2022
“You have to nominate people who can actually win, because winners make policy and losers go home,” McConnell said, noting that Republicans in 2014 looked to nominate candidates who could win general elections.
“Our operating approach will be to support our incumbents, and in open seats, to seek to help nominate people who can actually win in November,” McConnell said.
This, Mr. Turdle, is how you spell MAGA!
good cop bad cop and
winning
“Steve, put that turtle back on the post for now, K?”
Nailed it.
Our operating approach will be to support our incumbents, and in open seats, to seek to help nominate people who can actually win in November,” McConnell said.
Turtle is admitting he’s about saving the oligarchy and adding to it by only nominating the statist candidates who are or will be bought right into the Uniparty.
Bannon will still rightly keep that eye on the turtle’s lunch money.
Bannon: Don’t listen to Trump on this. Somebody has to hold their feet to the fire. Play “bad cop” on this.
Jared and Ivanka......Trump is foolidh if he falls for McConnells bs any longer
“When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
— Ronald Reagan
Ronny Ray Gun, who had his own GOP Establishment problem, was talking about Republicans, not Democrats when he made that comment.
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