WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, facing the prospect of campaigns from the pro-Trump wing of the Republican party, signaled his willingness to get involved in primary elections to improve the party’s chances of regaining control of the chamber in the next round of elections in 2022.
The key to GOP chances of retaking the Senate is “getting candidates who can actually win in November,” Mr. McConnell said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “That may or may not involve trying to affect the outcome of the primaries.” The carefully chosen phrasing reflects Mr. McConnell’s difficult balancing act as a de facto party leader after the party’s one-time standard-bearer, former President Trump, lost the White House in November elections, and roiled the political world with
. Extreme elements of Mr. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, leading to an impeachment trial of the former president., is still enormously popular among many Republican voters. To regain power, Mr. McConnell must tap the considerable energy the Trump movement brings to the party while weeding out any extreme candidates that he worries would have little chance of winning a general election, despite support from Mr. Trump.
Some Republicans who are squarely in the Trump wing of the party might easily win even a general election in deeply conservative areas. But such candidates risk complicating the party’s efforts elsewhere in more moderate areas of the country. If Mr. McConnell moves too aggressively against a pro-Trump candidate he deems too close to the fringes of the party, he could invite a backlash from the base.
Oh Lord help 😑
How is it working out so far?
Mitch McConnell needs to retire.
What McConnell fails to understand is you can’t separate the energy from the extremists. It’s a cult of personality not ideology
NONSENSE! And LeaderMcConnell opinion knows it. Not even gonna bother reading this disingenuous garbage — the American people, corporate America, its consumers, voters, US allies, the whole world sees for what it is. And knows the Republican Party is morally bankrupt.
Lol - I hope gets stung by every hornet in that nest
Would be better for America for mitch to resign 😼
Big business owners & conservative politicians talked Hindenburg into appointing Hitler chancellor. They thought the vulgar little corporal was a stooge that they could easily control. The rest is history!!
'Extreme candidates' - that excludes Trump from the get go.
WE ARE STARTING A 3RD PARTY MITCHYPOO!!
Idiotic
he should have just broken away from trump. but he feared he would lose his job. so he put himself before the country. this is the truth.
Mitch needs to resign, take Pelosi and Schumer with him.
Checks history... 🥴
We are done with this coward.....TERM LIMITS !!!!
Good luck with that. The Republican party is toast
Good luck! I can’t see how you energize a movement when you have alienated so many to win back “principled conservatives.” The same “principle conservatives” who scream they love God and then try to solicit sex for minors.
This man is corrupt and like many on both sides of the aisle he is the poster child for term limits. Enough of him and his counterpart
Ask Neville Chamberlain how that deal went
Weeds are really hard to get rid of once you let them take hold. Most gardeners will tell you that plowing under the entire bed & starting over is often the only thing that works.
Round Up would have been quicker
Oh how could trying to have it both ways possibly go wrong? 🤡
Not sure about McConnell's role in the 2022 elections since he has attacked Trump who owns GOP. Trump can retaliate against him and divide Republican voters in favor of Dems like GA re-elections. Dems will be happy to see GOP internal fight in public.
Its time for deep cleaning, on both sides. I dont see dems supporting a person looking to become a forever potus, let alone helping one, but they all care about electability first.
McConnell will support ANYONE who might win. If a Nazi runs as a Republican in a gerrymandered district he can win, Mitch will support him. He acquitted a PUS who tried to overthrow our democracy, then immediately declared him guilty—just to appease both sides of the divided GOP.
Ha! He's liable to be a big drag on any of the candidates.
The GOP will be blown out in 2022. Here’s a surprise for ya...no one likes tax cuts for rich people, endless wars, and organized religion.
McConnell can only HURT that drive.
The old fossil is finished he just doesn't know it yet.
Ol Moscow Mitch is probably going to be in criminal courts for the foreseeable future
By all means please do. We want them to completely implode. The republicans care absolutely nothing about anyone except for corporate America. Simply put if corporations don't pay taxes, your taxes will go up. Someone has to pay for it. It's not free.
He wants to be remembered as the man double faced, on one side support Morons and on the other benefit from what they can give you .
LeaderMcConnell
We have to make sure any campaign Millionaire Mitch is involved with ... that everyone knows just how sleazy Mitch is
Then y’all gone loose is that simple, you really think we wanna vote for a person who has been denying us Stimulus Checks and more money for unemployment. He’s a scumbag that only cares for the rich. If we want to live in a Dictatorship then vote him in. HELLNO NEXT
I guess it is beyond his capacity to simply do what is right and denounce Trump altogether and unequivocally. Trying to have it both ways cannot possibly succeed in the long run.
Let's make sure Mitch, and the GOP, never regain a majority again! Vote all of Trump's supporters out of office!
Democrats set some good fires and do it now or 2022 will not be yours. Maybe you guys don't care since a ton of you are rich and also benefit from GOP policies as well.
Trump has a 90% approval rate among Republicans. After Traitor Mitch's comments during impeachment, his approval rate is probably the other 10%. No thanks.
Rather, Senator McConnell signaled his willingness to further fracture, factionalize, and forsake the party by failing to excise the POTUS45 cancer that invaded its ranks.
He is dreaming. They lost a lot of Republicans, not all of the are pro white supremacists and thugs. Mitch McConnell showed which side he stands on by voting no to impeachment. He is one of them and no speech is going to change it, he showed his color
Is this a typo?
Or if he just want to retire or croke over... that would be great too.
Perhaps M McConnell past due date will have been met by then. Bring on the ProjectLincoln & democrats for success Herron in
Seriously Mitch? But you won’t impeach, seriously?
Criminal investigations need to look into involvement of Senators Cruz, Graham, Hawley, McConnell, Rep. Nunes, etc. Also MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell (remember WH visit w/ marshal law notes). Follow the $ and some will lead back to Russia.
Who in the hell would want Republicans to control anything.
He let the monster off the hook this past weekend
And tomorrow he'll say he won't touch 2022 with a 10 ft pole.
hmmm.
good luck with that Mitch
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