Posted on 03/01/2024 7:13:14 AM PST by RandFan
The race to replace Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is laying bare the power struggle between pro-Trump and anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate.
GOP lawmakers aligned closely with the former president are urging any candidate wanting to succeed McConnell to embrace Trump. Other Republican senators want McConnell’s successor to keep a healthy distance from the controversial former president.
McConnell fell out bitterly with former President Trump after the 2020 election and hasn’t spoken to him for more than three years, creating an awkward tension in the party that many GOP senators want to dispel.
But Republicans are divided over how aligned their next leader should be with Trump.
Some, such as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) want to elect a new leader who will be a cheerleader for Trump, flying with the former president to rallies around the country.
“It’s an imperative,” he said. “We got to get somebody now who’s going to energize our base all across the country for Senate Republicans and also going to be able to get on that airplane with Trump and stand up at a rally and say, ‘Listen, we need President Trump to win,’ and be very truthful about it.”
Other Republicans, who point to what they view as Trump’s spotty record endorsing Republican candidates who can actually win Senate seats in November — not to mention Trump’s failure to win re-election in 2020 — want to keep a healthy distance from Trump.
Some of those same Republicans are privately alarmed that Trump last month torpedoed a package of Ukraine funding and border security reforms because he wanted to deny President Biden a political win.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said many Republican senators have endorsed Trump out of a sense of political “self-preservation.”
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I refuse to listen to Romney about anything-—even the weather.
I JUST DO NOT TRUST HIM ON AMY LEVEL.
For me, it is not about President Trump.
It is all about Senators who are transGOP. People like McConnell, Graham, Thune, Cornhole, etc, etc who are DemonicRat lite and truly hate America and American principles and are in government for themselves. They are globalists and support elitists like the WEF/WHO.
We need a Senate leader who is not those things and supports America, American values, smaller government, less intrusive government, and will fight (not cave) to see them enacted. A Senate leader who when they meet with Rats, it is to make them cave. The only thing this has to do with President Trump is that Trump is for those things.
Chili dogs!
Cheeseburgers!
What kind of French restaurant is this?
One in Washington, DC in the midst of civil war, Monsieur.
Give me the regular menu and make it snappy.
Monsieur, all the restaurants in the national capital region have been requested to serve the Sons of Liberty menu.
Just passed your one year anniversary.
Hope you continue to enjoy FR.
a fight long past due.
it looks like the other side is surrendering to Trump, not planning to fight him.
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The Republicans uncanny ability to muck things up and
snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
If Mitt were a real Conservative, he might have been President. Fighting MAGA is fighting conservativism. He needs to be tossed on the trash heap with Rona. These RINOs have cost us a Republican Senate (more than once).
“Civil War?” Hardly.
It’s entirely the Repubican pols versus the Republican base + Trump.
Rush said many years ago:
“Given the scaredy-cat nature of the Republican party.”
Things haven’t really changed.
“We are in a cultural war with the left, and there’s no place for the faint of heart in the leadership of the Republican Party.”
We are simply seeking to have government run in a rational fashion and there is no cause for ‘independent’ voters to refuse to vote for a Republican candidate.
‘Independent voters’ who do not like anger should obviously prefer gracious despite all Trump over anger-filled Biden and hate-filled Harris.
Not a year yet, but yes, welcome Bobcat!
What they are talking about here is Senators who want to succeed McConnell as Minority Leader. I am more concerned actually about who will occupy McConnell’s seat in the Senate. He’s not announced that he’s retiring from the Senate, but I think we can all see that is next. Kentucky has a popular Democrat Governor. I think we will probably see a Democrat occupy that seat.
“It’s actually establishment vs the people truth be known”
Agreed
It’s US vs Them
MAGA of The People vs the GloBullDeepStateGrifters
In the Senate we have our tongues.
In the House we have a majority of about 2 after few ‘representatives’ scampered off in search of their ‘30 pieces of silver’.
Yeah. Milt vs. Tuberville, that kinda tells the tale, doesn’t it?
“who can reason with Schumer”
Sorry, no.
There is no reasoning with Chucky.
He hasn’t compromised or “crossed the aisle” on anything.
UpChuck needs to be trampled, not reasoned with.
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We need a MAGA hero in the Senate to lead the charge, much like Matt Gaetz did in the House. A respected conservative senator needs to stand up and say, "Make {your favorite name here} our next Senate Majority leader!" And let the battle begin.
Yes, I said "Majority", because we will have the majority come November.
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