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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Romney is lower than slug vomit. I’ve been voting since the Reagan/Carter election and never in my life have I ever seen any politician call a press conference to bash his own parties nomineee for President. I still can’t believe it, but that’s just what Romney did in 2016. And incredibly Romney had the gall to badmouth George Santos to his face telling Santos HE’S a “sick puppy”?? Look in the mirror jackass!!
I’m proud that Tommy Tuberville is my Senator
We want tactical aggressive fighters not eunuchs. No Thune, etc.
It has always been McConnell that picks worthless Senate candidates.
The Trump hating Senators can rot in hell.
Good riddance to Romney, Mitch, et al.
It might be time to call this c--------r out. Have Trump challenge him to a debate, and eliminate RINOs once and for all.
"Well, Mitt, you're a loser, and Americans don't like losers..NO, wait, wait, you're not going to respond during my time. Your time is over, you need to retire to your White Castle and get out of politics forever."
You saw this, right?
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