Political junkies first thought might be?
What about Donald Trump’s ‘two cents’ on this?
But?
Senate Republican will most likely keep ole’ Mitch in the Senate drivers seat despite the ex-President’s wishes….
McConnell just got easily re-elected back home in Kentucky in 2020…
McConnell, who will turn 80 in February, made clear on Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to step down from the Senate Republican leader’s job anytime soon, despite Trump’s pressure.
McConnell made his statement a few days after his top deputy, Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), ended months of speculation by announcing over the weekend that he would run for a fourth Senate term.
Thune is allowed to serve two more years as the Republican whip before he will be required to step down from the post at the end of 2024 because of the Senate Republican Conference’s term-limit rules for leadership posts. Those term limits, however, do not apply to the top leader.
McConnell was elected to a seventh Senate term in 2020 by a nearly 20-point margin over Democrat Amy McGrath and won’t be up for reelection until 2026….
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of Trump’s, said last month that a Republican leader in Congress needs to have “a working relationship with Donald Trump” or “you cannot be effective.”
Republican senators say none of McConnell’s possible heirs apparent — neither Thune nor Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso(R-Wyo.) nor former Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) — appear to be actively jockeying to replace McConnell.
GOP senators say they don’t know of any Republican senator who plans to challenge McConnell for the top Republican leadership slot in the Senate despite his rocky relationship with Trump, who remains popular with Republican base voters..
image….The Hill
More on McConnell keeping his support in there face of continued Donald Trump bitching about him and failure in trying to unseat him from leading the Republicans in the US Senate…There ARE limits to how much Trump can get from GOPer’s
In the 11 months that have passed since Trump first called for the Kentucky Republican to be ousted — suggesting shortly after his second Senate impeachment trial ended that it was time for the “unsmiling political hack” to be voted out of office — McConnell’s authority among Senate Republicans has neither waned nor has he faced the onslaught of blistering attacks from GOP hopefuls that Trump has been pining for.
Most candidates who have nabbed Trump’s endorsement have refused to declare war on McConnell, who remains a powerful fundraiser and influential party figure in his own right, while those who are still angling for the former President’s support have also stopped short of staking out opposition to the powerful senator from Kentucky. Trump’s ineffective attempt, thus far, to challenge the top Senate Republican has forced him to temper his criteria as he aims to be a kingmaker in this year’s midterm elections, according to multiple people close to the former President who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity.
Some of his aides have warned him that requiring unequivocal opposition to McConnell to secure or maintain his support is incompatible with his broader objectives — a warning that Trump himself appears to be considering. The former President has not rescinded his endorsements of candidates who have stopped short of opposing McConnell and previously earned Trump’s support, and he continues to privately consider endorsements for other candidates who have openly mused about reelecting McConnell if they make it into the Senate, according to a person familiar with Trump’s thinking….
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And….
Other GOPer’s have stood up FOR Sen. Rounds pointing out in public that Donald J. Trump LOST his re-election attempt….
The first open challenge of sorts has been issued to McConnells re-election as Republican Leader …
Lindsay Graham says …
“ If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or Senate ,you have to have a working relationship with President Donald Trump.He is the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan.Its his nomination if he wants it and I think he’ll get re-elected in
2924.” 2024re-elected in 2924?
If only …. 😉
On the other hand, can you imagine eight centuries of the Orange Terror?
sorry, nine centuries 😉
I gotcha Jack on the date…..
Hot Damn DSD is doing emoji’s!
And we have this on the Republicans side with the US Senate….
And Mitch MCConnell….
As Donald Trump charts out his midterm elections strategy, his focus has turned to the contest for the Senate, not just in hopes of getting it back under GOP control but of having more compliant lawmakers there should he become president again.
Trump’s interest in the chamber stems in part from a lingering aggrievement he had over how his term in office went. Major agenda items were stymied there. And aides say Trump is determined to ensure that, should he end up back in the White House, that doesn’t happen again….
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McConnell has this as he has since he got the spot….
Graham is just ass rising Trump and his acolytes