Mitch McConnell has a sad :(

[CatWoman]

McConnell offers dour midterm forecast, cites 'candidate quality' as GOP Senate hopefuls struggle

Mitch McConnell conceded that Republicans face a tough task in flipping the Senate majority.

McConnell said that "candidate quality" has a lot to do with the races, a nod to the GOP's current struggles.

Pundits have increasingly predicted that Democrats may hold the chamber while the GOP flips the House.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday offered a meager forecast of his party's chances of flipping the Senate this November as Republican nominees in key races struggle to catch up to their opponents.

"I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," McConnell said in Kentucky, per NBC News's Frank Thorp V. "Senate races are just different, they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."

McConnell's outlook comes as GOP nominees in the nation's most closely contested states struggle to keep up.

https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-offers-dour-midterm-forecast-180948547.html

[PortTack]

1. He's not ever gonna be majority leader again..ever. His options are really no better in '24

[Mad_Machine76]

11. Didn't he promise to quit

if Republicans didn't win back the Senate? Not that I put much faith in what Mitch says, but still.......

[progressoid]

19. Fact Check-No evidence for social media claims that Mitch McConnell said he might resign after midte

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-midterms-mcconnell/fact-check-no-evidence-for-social-media-claims-that-mitch-mcconnell-said-he-might-resign-after-midterms-idUSL1N2YI0MS

An unsupported allegation about Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announcing he would resign if he did not become Senate Majority leader in the upcoming midterm elections has been retweeted at least 30,000 times on Twitter. But Reuters found no evidence McConnell has made such statement.

One of the earliest iterations Reuters identified was from the morning of June 28 (here). “Mitch McConnell said if he’s not Majority Leader after the midterms he’ll quit. I’m okay with that,” the user wrote.

[Mad_Machine76]

20. Darn

Why did you have to go and spoil my fun?!

[progressoid]

21. Sorry...

I couldn't imagine him giving up his power voluntarily so I had to find out.

[COL Mustard]

2. I love it when they

Drive themselves off the cliff.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I still think red states will simply refuse to certify elections they lose. Hope I am wrong.

[Sugarcoated]

22. I would think the courts would

force the Fascist wannabes to follow the law. Even the states where Trump thugs have made it easier to throw out votes, they can be challenged in court.

[Bettie]

23. They'll just go all the way to the SCOTUS

who will do their bidding.

[Sugarcoated]

24. Maybe, maybe not

[Bettie]

25. I hope not

but I have very little trust left in that group of right wing christofascist operatives.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. He's lying. They'll still try to steal their way into control.

"Sad" is not what I wish he had. I wish he had a "terminal ____", and I don't care what fills in the blank as long as it's soon.

[multigraincracker]

5. Did he just issue a

Tsunami Warning for the whole country? Huge Blue Wave.

[Effete Snob]

6. "Candidate Quality"

Yeah, it's tough finding candidates with the dynamic energy and charisma of Mitch McConnell.

[Emile]

7. That's what happens when you look to a con man

for leadership.

[Celerity]

8. He can go fuck himself.

[Sky Jewels]

9. Poor Mitch.

[Caliman73]

10. McConnell just admitted Republican strategy.

"Senate races are different..." Translation, "We can cheat a lot better to win House seats. We have that under wraps with gerrymandering" Senate races are a little tougher because you actually have to have a message and ability to articulate. McConnell has his seat locked. He's an incumbent and has A LOT of dark money behind him. Winning a seat against an incumbent Democrat or an open seat, might be more difficult, especially if you policies suck ass and your candidates are crazy bastards.

[True Blue American]

13. You should see the money Mitch and

The party threw in for JD and the hateful ads against Nan Whaley.,all lies to cover DeWines expose on First Energy. They have texts and proof he was involved before he was sworn in.

[RainCaster]

12. Poor little fuckin post turtle

It's not about "candidate quality", @MoscowMitch. It's about Idea Quality. When you run on the promise of destruction, telling us you will kill our Social Security, stop all abortions and bring back the Mango Mussolini, while giving more massive tax breaks to the billionaires, what did you really think would happen?

[True Blue American]

14. Mitch said this was his last term.

[Pepsidog]

15. I just can't imagine where we would be if TFG won in 2020 and to now hear that the H may flip after

the Democrats pushed through historic legislation over the past 2 years makes me sick. McCarthy as leader pushing lie after lie and conspiracy theories while further dividing and degrading the our country and it’s institutions. I have heard it said that destroying
Democracies start out slowly but end fast. If Rs win the House or Senate after all Democrats and Biden have done the past 2 years then we are definitely seeing the rapid collapse of our once good nation. Not to mention losing after the tsunami of disastrous SCOTUS decisions brought to us by Republican Justices who have violated the most basic of legal principles and their oaths of office.

[Brainfodder]

16. Time to retire Mitch, we will so miss you, promise!

[wiggs]

17. He said the US is a 50/50 country, which is BS. Though gop leaders have historically said that

the nation is 'center right'...it has not been at all. When was the last time a gop candidate for potus won the popular vote? 2004? And when was the last time gop had more votes for House candidates than dems, nationally? My memory is that dems outvote the gop by huge margins nationally but because of fixed districts the gop often gets more candidates elected. That's not 50/50...

That McConnell has moved off of the 'center right' stance and admits the nation is 50/50 reflects a trend but it's still not accurate.

(Further, if you don't look at votes for candidates but look at issues...dem positions are viewed much more favorably than gop platform issues whatever those are now)

[usonian]

18. While Mitch may have firm grasp of all GQP genitals,

he has lost the party to the mob. When he and Barr's blackmail files are exposed, it's Mitch and Liz against the horde.

And the Transylvanian Lullaby won't silence them.

[Hotler]

26. Good! ... nt