McConnell & Co.gets their way with Cheney….
And don’t give damn about Greene…
But Trump STILL has his lemmings…
Remember Donald Trump is NOT about the Grand ole Party…
He Is about Donald Trump….
Nothing More….
The battles of Cheney and Greene this week are proxy battles for a larger fight. You have Cheney, representing the older guard institutionalist wing whose most prominent member is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Then you have Greene, who has claimed the backing of former President Donald Trump and has been bashed by McConnell.
And while the institutionalists won this week and the Trump wing suffered a rebuke, the battle among the Republican electorate is going a very different way. The institutionalists of the Republican Party are losing out to those who have Trump’s blessing.
We don’t have a lot of really good polling on how voters view Cheney and Greene. The numbers we do have suggest what you might expect. Cheney’s ratings are strongly negative among Republicans nationally. Greene’s mostly unknown, but has better ratings among those Republicans who are familiar with her….
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The last time McConnell had a net negative favorability rating with Republicans in CNN pollingwas in September 2017. That year, McConnell and Trump were feuding in the late summer and early fall. As Politico noted at the time, “the tit-for-tat between Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the chamber’s failure to repeal Obamacare opens a politically perilous schism.”
Trump won that battle within the party easily, as he is winning this time.
Until something dramatically changes in the Republican Party, the pattern will remain the same for Republicans who go after Trump or anything associated with him. They will find out that Republican voters don’t like that very much….