County GOP chairman in Kentucky calls on McConnell to resign from leadership over remarks ...
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County GOP chairman in Kentucky calls on McConnell to resign from leadership over remarks on Trump’s responsibility for Jan. 6 attack
By Felicia Sonmez and Michael Scherer
A county Republican Party chairman in Kentucky is calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to step down from his position as Senate minority leader over his statement that former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Don Thrasher, chairman of the Nelson County Republican Party, said in a statement Tuesday that McConnell’s leadership in the Senate “does not represent the Republican voters that put our faith in you in the last primary election.”
McConnell on Saturday voted to acquit Trump of the charge of incitement of insurrection. In a floor speech after the vote, he said “there’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” but it was beyond the scope of the Senate’s authority to try a former president.
Trump responded to McConnell in a statement Tuesday in which he called the Kentucky Republican “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” and mused that “if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.”
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The repubs need to stop this cancel culture!!!!!
