Mitch McConnell helped turn the Midterm elections into a dumpster fire for Republicans.
The RINO is about to face the music for his awful decisions.
And Mitch McConnell could have started a campfire with his glare after a top Republican dropped three words.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is trying to hang on to his job as top GOP boss in the U.S. Senate.
After a disappointing Midterm election cycle, control of the Senate will stay in Democrats’ hands.
When Senator McConnell could have had easy sailing regaining the title of Senate Majority Leader, instead McConnell has quickly lost credibility among conservatives.
McConnell’s failures leading the Senate GOP—including on Democrat’s gun control and so-called “infrastructure” spending schemes he agreed to earlier this year, not to mention failing to set a clear message for the Party to campaign on in the Midterms and his complete disregard for planning for the actual mechanics of elections conducted under mail-in balloting—resulted in a disastrous outcome for the Party on Election Day.
And all that was prior to McConnell alarmingly yanking funding from potentially competitive Senate races in the final months before the elections.
Now, two Senate Republicans are saying it’s time for the GOP to move on from Mitch McConnell.
Both of Missouri’s Republicans Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator-elect Eric Schmitt (R-MO) have come out against McConnell keeping his leadership position.
At one of Schmitt’s campaign rallies prior to the Midterm elections, Senator Hawley told a group of reporters that he won’t be supporting the Kentucky Senator going forward.
“I don’t imagine I will, no,” Hawley said, referring to voting for McConnell in the Senate Republicans’ upcoming leadership elections.
So far, no Republican Senator has officially challenged McConnell’s leadership position.
“I’m not sure if any other Senator will run or not,” Hawley said. “Nobody’s indicated they would. But my view is that we need new leadership in that position.”
When asked who the next Republican Senate leader should be, Hawley replied, “Not Mitch McConnell.”
Missouri Senator-elect, Eric Schmitt campaigned on promising he would oppose McConnell continuing to lead the Senates.
“Mitch McConnell hasn’t endorsed me and I don’t endorse him for leadership,” Schmitt explained in July.
When asked recently how he will vote in the next leadership election, Schmitt remained firm.
“I said what I said, and I stand by those comments,” Schmitt said.
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has emerged as a leading name who could be in a position to challenge McConnell.
Scott served as Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and is credited with playing a big role in boosting the Republican Senate candidates McConnell abandoned this year.
It’s telling that Senator Scott refused to endorse Senator McConnell for leadership during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press.
During the interview held prior to Election Day, host Chuck Todd asked Scott if he planned to run for leader if Republicans won the majority.
“I’m not focused on anything except getting a majority Tuesday night,” Scott answered.
Todd remarked that Scott’s response was a “non-answer.”
“It’s a possibility,” Todd noted and Scott didn’t take issue with that remark.
For months rumors have been circulating that if anyone has a chance of defeating McConnell as Republicans Senate leader, it’s Senator Scott.
Donald Trump suggested that Rick Scott would be a better alternative to McConnell’s disastrous leadership.
“This guy does not deserve to continue to be leader and hopefully somebody’s going to challenge him,” Trump said in a radio interview referring to McConnell. “But I’ll tell you, if I run, and if I win, he will not be leader.”
After disappointing Midterm elections, Republican opposition to Mitch McConnell is swelling.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
