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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And why she’s hated just like Trump.
Doesnt McConnel need a fresh booster shot?
I think the Turtle needs to go duck hunting with Dick Cheney.
To Mitch, quality Senatorial candidates are Rinos...weak people who will do what he wants them to.
Then why did every other Republican running for state wide office in Georgia win? Are they in on it too?
Trump didn’t pick the candidates, the primary voters did. Just say it out loud Mitch, you hate and resent republican voters who expect you to actually do things that you promise.
Exactly.
McConnell is despicable! Under his corrupt leadership the US debt increased to $30+ Trillion not including liabilities. Anyone who voted for this corrupt despicable no good traitor should be ashamed. McConnell needs to resign immediately.
Just who, exactly, does the Turtle think his supporters are ?
Outside the Beltway, that is.
Not with my money
Get this this idiot stick off the highway.
Lindsey Graham threw the election, with his idiotic abortion scare right before. And everyone knows it.
They polled people leaving the election sites. Dems said abortion had a (recent) HUGE impact on their turnout. Not republicans.
Those are the FACTS.
In a way, he is correct. The Trump base sat on their behinds and kept their wallets closed, leaving the GOP candidates helplessly twisting in the wind to be demolished by the opposition with no way of fighting back against the narrative. Can’t win a battle you don’t even bother to show up to. The Trump campaign organization certainly has a contact list unlike any other that could have made these candidates political juggernauts. Instead, they did nothing.
I want mitch fang-fang mcConnell... OUT of his job and office NOW... I want it to be obvious that GOD gets him gone so that we cannot be blamed and such.
by God’s own hand if necessary.
I also pray for a quantum event of ‘happenings’ that shift power from the uniparty to right wing, god fearing, bible-believing anti-communist/anti-socialist/anti-atheistic humanist Gideon and sampson type power houses at every level.
And I hope mitch LIVES to see, rendered helpless, while his empire of evil crumbles around him and he goes the way of Korah and his kin...
I like this quote from the book of numbers in the old testament:
“...As soon as Moses had finished saying all this,
the ground beneath them split open,
“and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households— all Korah’s men and all their possessions.
“They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned.
The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
baloney
mitch “fang fang” mcConnell and his rico style organization is responsible for every item of failure we have experienced for last 15-20 years even before there was a trump...
I’m a KY voter, Mitch is gone in 2024. We can’t beat him in the primary, there’s to many Dems registered as GOP. That’s why he’s the 900# gorilla in KY. But he will lose in the General. Ditch Mitch!
Remember, Mitch chased Jim Bunning out of the Senate, he’s also torpedoed two conservative, grassroots voter bases - Tea Party and MAGA. Ditch Mitch is on the schedule.
Truth be told, are any of them any good? Do they all just exist just to give us the appearance of a choice.
McCain hated the tea party. How many of the current ones secretly do?
F U Mitch
And the horse you rode in on.
BTW that you voters in Ky for sending this piece of debris to the Senate, repeatedly.
McConnell is DIMINISHED.
WHAT A,RINO LOSER.
Yes like dr. Oz. Big mistake.
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