The two will do anything they can to hold onto their seats in the upcoming 2020 election.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” journalist Jane Mayer, who penned a highly praised profile of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for the New Yorker, said that the Kentucky Republican has “wrapped himself” around Donald Trump and is tying his political future to his support for the president.
“He wants to win re-election, Mayer said of McConnell. “He’s up for re-election in the fall and he also wants to keep the Republican majority in the Senate. It’s incredibly important for him to stay majority leader.”
“What he has going with Trump is basically a marriage of convenience, where they each get something out of it, even though they have very different constituencies in a way,” Mayer continued. “When Trump ran in 2016, he talked about trying to drain the swamp. You’ll see in the [New Yorker] story there are people who describe Mitch McConnell as the biggest swamp creature in Washington. He’s made a career out of servicing the biggest donors in the party and getting away all the campaign finance laws that try to flow corrupt money into politics. But they have a partnership now … it’s all about winning and nothing will stand in the way of them trying to win.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-and-mcconnell-are-partners-now-and-nothing-will-stand-in-the-way-of-them-trying-to-win-new-yorker-writer/
