{"id":510029,"date":"2022-11-15T03:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gop-senate-allies-rally-around-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T03:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:02:56","slug":"gop-senate-allies-rally-around-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-senate-allies-rally-around-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"#GOP Senate allies rally around McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a287058e4a13\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a287058e4a13\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gop-senate-allies-rally-around-mcconnell\/#GOP_Senate_allies_rally_around_McConnell\" >GOP Senate allies rally around McConnell<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"GOP_Senate_allies_rally_around_McConnell\"><\/span>GOP Senate allies rally around McConnell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/mcconnellmitch_111422gn_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republican senators are rallying around Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after a dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointing midterm election for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>A push by a group of Senate conservatives to delay Wednesday\u2019s leadership election is running out of steam, even though senators don\u2019t yet know whether they will have 50 or 49 members of their conference until after the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (Fla.), who is more closely allied with former President Trump, on Monday failed to convince other members of the Senate GOP leadership team to agree to delay Wednesday\u2019s election \u2014 a sign that McConnell remains in full control.<\/p>\n<p>Scott didn\u2019t press his argument to postpone the election or indicate he planned to challenge McConnell when he met with the rest of the leadership team Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GOP senators said they expect to have a full conversation about what went wrong in the midterms during a conference lunch meeting Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior Republicans see Trump\u2019s role in the midterm elections, which revved up Democratic voters to turn out to the polls in large numbers despite President Biden\u2019s low approval rating, as a significant factor behind GOP losses in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never any one thing, but I think it\u2019s pretty clear that we didn\u2019t perform well among independent voters, which in a lot of those states that were competitive was a big share of the electorate. And I think that it\u2019s clear that running on relitigating the 2020 election is not a winning strategy,\u201d said Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.), who rejected calls to delay the leadership election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to move forward,\u201d he said, predicting that McConnell will be reelected as leader.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the former whip and an adviser to the Senate GOP leadership team, also rejected the push to postpone the leadership election until next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why we would delay an uncontested race. I don\u2019t know what purpose that would serve, and I think it\u2019s important for us to figure out how to come together and remove the distractions to winning the runoff in Georgia,\u201d Cornyn said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued \u201cthere\u2019s no one single factor\u201d for why Republicans failed to win the Senate, though he acknowledged \u201cthe results were disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Texas Republican noted that \u201cfirst-time candidates\u201d played a role in Republicans falling short of expectations, alluding to GOP candidates in Pennsylvania and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) indicated that Trump\u2019s claims about the 2020 presidential election didn\u2019t help the Republican cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking forward is always a better campaign strategy. Looking back to 2020 obviously didn\u2019t work out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>And some Republicans allied with McConnell are blaming Scott for unveiling an agenda earlier this year that called for sunsetting all federal law after a period of five years.<\/p>\n<p>Biden targeted Scott in a speech a few days before Election Day for wanting to put \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> Security and Medicare on the chopping block every five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott, who predicted last month that Republicans would control at least 52 seats next year, declined to comment about his conversation with members of the leadership team after Monday\u2019s meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A large group of GOP senators say McConnell deserves a lot of credit for helping Republicans win in Ohio and North Carolina. The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC affiliated with McConnell, spent more than $33 million in Ohio and $38 million in North Carolina, propelling author J.D. Vance and Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) to victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Leadership Fund also poured $39 million to help Republican candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia; $26 million in the Nevada Senate race, which former state Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Adam Laxalt narrowly lost; and $16.4 million on retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc\u2019s (R) unsuccessful effort to knock off Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s supporters point out that he raised more money for Bolduc, who embraced Trump\u2019s baseless claims of election fraud during the Republican primary, than Trump spent on all Senate Republican candidates combined.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), one of Trump\u2019s closest allies in the upper chamber, told reporters Monday that he still planned to vote for McConnell to serve another two terms as leader and said he supports holding the election on Wednesday as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville, who says he will support Trump if he runs again for president, said he would still vote for McConnell even though Trump has repeatedly called for Senate Republicans to vote him out of the leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that an oxymoron?\u201d he quipped. \u201cEverybody\u2019s got their opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Tuberville said Republicans need to review their strategy of using early voting and mail-in ballots to boost Republican voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>A group of seven Senate Republicans last week called for Wednesday\u2019s leadership election to be delayed until after the Georgia runoff, but it failed to move Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (Wyo.), a close McConnell ally who has say over the timing.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday joined the call to postpone the leadership election. But on the same day, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a rising conservative star, argued against a delay because no one has launched a challenge to any of the sitting leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see why we would delay the election since all five or six of our leadership elections are uncontested. You know the great wrestling champion Ric Flair used to say, \u2018To be the man, you got to beat the man,\u2019 and so far no one has had the nerve to step forward and challenge Sen. McConnell,\u201d Cotton said on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d advising that his colleagues \u201cmove forward with these elections so we can focus again on the Georgia runoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s conservative critics within the GOP conference have seized on the disappointment of Election Day to take shots at the GOP leader.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has clashed with McConnell in the past, accused his leader on Monday of \u201cabandoning\u201d Blake Masters in the Arizona Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who is eyeing another presidential run, accused McConnell of putting his own personal ambition to continue serving as leader ahead of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbandoning Blake Masters was indefensible,\u201d Cruz said on his podcast, \u201cVerdict,\u201d referring to a decision by the Senate Leadership Fund to pull out of the Arizona Senate race in September.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Cruz said the decision was driven by Masters\u2019s vow during the Republican primary not to support McConnell\u2019s bid to serve another term as leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Masters said he would vote against Mitch McConnell. And so Mitch would rather be leader than have a Republican majority. If there\u2019s a Republican who can win who\u2019s not going to support Mitch, the truth of the matter is he\u2019d rather the Democrat win,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0One McConnell ally pointed out that One Nation, a McConnell-allied outside spending group, devoted $13.1 million to the Arizona Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>Retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) last week put the blame for failing to win a critical race in his home state, where celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz (R) lost to Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), squarely on Trump\u2019s shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump had to insert himself and that changed the nature of the race, and that created just too much of an obstacle,\u201d he said on CNN\u2019s \u201cErin Burnett OutFront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd by the way, it\u2019s not just Pennsylvania. You look all over the country, there\u2019s a very high correlation between MAGA candidates and big losses, or at least dramatically underperforming,\u201d he added, referring to Trump\u2019s slogan: Make America Great Again.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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