Mitch McConnell Is Now The Least Popular Senator In America - Ring of Fire

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Things have changed very quickly in the US Senate, and that should leave many incumbents concerned about their futures. According to a new survey, Mitch McConnell is now the most unpopular Senator in his home state, boasting a disapproval rating of more than 60%. There isn't another Senator in the country that is as disliked in their own state as much as McConnell is, so maybe that means that Trump's attacks are working? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to the results of a new poll, Republican senator Mitch McConnell is now the least popular senator in the United States in their home state. Mitch McConnell now holds a 64% disapproval rating in his state of Kentucky with only 29% of voters in his state saying, yes, I approve of Mitch McConnell. No other Senator, Republican or Democrat has a disapproval rating that high in their home state. So that's bad news for Mitch McConnell. It also means, unfortunately, that I might be wrong about Donald Trump's attacks on Mitch McConnell. You know, Donald Trump has been going scorched earth against Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell's been firing back against Donald Trump, and I thought for sure McConnell was gonna be the one to win this feud. But based on these poll numbers, uh, kind of looks like Trump is winning and he's winning pretty big at this point. So McConnell's got a lot of trouble.

Of course, he doesn't have to worry about reelection, I think until, uh, 2026. So he's got three and a half years to write the ship. So I don't think he's any, in any immediate trouble. Not to mention, again, the guy's been around since, you know, the dawn of time. He may not even seek another term, but to see these numbers, to see that he is the least popular senator kind of makes me happy a little bit, right? There's more, McConnell was joined by Senators Joe Manchin, Ron Johnson and Susan Collins as the only lawmakers in the chamber to have disapproval ratings above 50%. So Joe Manchin, who just a year ago, was the fifth most popular senator in his home state. So he was in the top five of most popular senators. Now one of the least liked senators in his home state. So Mitch McConnell's attacks, or excuse me, Donald Trump's attacks on Mitch McConnell appear to be working.

But on the other side of it, our attacks on Joe Manchin appear to be working. You know, everybody on the left is pretty much an agreement. Joe Manchin is a piece of garbage. Even some of the more moderate Democrats out there are with the, you know, super progressives in saying, Joe Manchin sucks and we don't like him. So, you know, yeah, take the good with the bad. Mitch McConnell's, the least popular, but right behind him is Joe Manchin, and of course Ron Johnson up in Wisconsin. That's pretty remarkable considering the fact that the man just won reelection. That's what I don't get either. Okay. Ron Johnson wins reelection in Wisconsin just two months ago, and now those same voters who just sent him back to DC for six more

Years, like, yeah, we don't like him, but, but you just, you just rehired him. And I don't know that you understand how those work, like those whole election things, if you didn't like him, you didn't have to vote for him, but you did, and now you've cursed the whole country with another six years. Iran Johnson.

[republianmushroom]

1. I can believe it.

[blueinredohio]

2. He's had a very low approval rate for years

but still manages to get re-elected. How does that happen you probably wonder.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Exactly, he could care less about approval ratings.

McConnell is most certainly not going to let voters get in the way of his position in DC.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Ted Cruz weeps.

[Drum]

4. Lolz

[keithbvadu2]

5. Rafael Cruz will send Moscow Mitch a belated Christmas card.

[Bayard]

6. We hate him here

I keep saying that every time someone on DU holds forth about how stupid Kentuckians are for voting for him.

He has big--and old--money behind him. And a touch if fishy-ness.

[magicarpet]

8. If old Mitch died and went to hell,..

... he constituents back home in Kentucky would still gleefully vote for him posthumously.

He rams those Nazi judges on the US Supreme Court and advances the Fascist Theocratic agenda in congress.