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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mitch McConnell's support in Kentucky has cratered... [View all]
...since he attached himself to Trump and now his seat is on the lineWritten by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story October 31, 2019
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The poll showing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the presidents most stolid defender, is down to a 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky. Only 37 percent in the Public Policy Poll said they would vote for him again next year, she wrote, adding that McConnells numbers should serve as a warning to all GOP lawmakers no matter how conservative their states are.
The Bluegrass State is the canary in the mine for how much Trump can help, or hurt, a candidate as his impeachment looks ever more likely. After two weeks of unimpeachable civil servants bearing witness to an impeachable president, clinging to Trump out of fear he will kill you if you dont do what he says is becoming more politically perilous, she wrote before pointing out: McConnells facing his toughest race since he first won election in 1984.
As such, McConnell has moved ever-so-slightly away from Trump, with Carlson writing, As his poll numbers have dropped and his re-election bid looms, McConnell has made ever so slight moves to distance himself from Trump, whose whims now extend to the slaughter of our erstwhile allies, like the Kurds and Ukrainians. Somewhere inside the old McConnell lives a patriot and institutional loyalist appalled that Trump has deputized a shadow government staffed by rogue operators like Rudy Giuliani and his now-indicted pals. To those ends, McConnell recently refused to confirm Trumps claim that McConnell said his Ukrainian call was innocent, or to agree that impeachment is a lynching. He hedges his criticism of impeachment by objecting to the process.
Unfortunately for McConnell, as she writes, should things go south for Trump, McConnell will likely be dogged by the fact that his wife, Elain Chao works in the Trump administration as Secretary of Labor and because of a fundraising email he sent out using stopping Trumps impeachment as a hook for donations.
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/mitch-mcconnells-support-in-kentucky-has-cratered-since-he-attached-himself-to-trump-and-now-his-seat-is-on-the-line/
Ha ha. It is to laugh.
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Mitch won't release his records, including the reference to a Courts Martial.
Kid Berwyn
Oct 2019
#40
If we keep the House & win the WH & McConnell is still Majority Leader, we're still fucked.
CrispyQ
Oct 2019
#8
Except that the DOJ will once again work for the people. That's pretty big. n/t
Whiskeytide
Oct 2019
#11
Seeing McConnell go down hard, will be just as satisfying as seeing Trump go down hard. nt.
Stuart G
Oct 2019
#15
Moscow Mitch will have many Russian speaking backers to get his numbers back up to 25% and
uponit7771
Oct 2019
#17
mcCONnell will throw tRump under the bus rather than lose his election. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2019
#20
And probably his best avenue to save the GOP, by getting Trump out asap. That gives him 9 months or
OnDoutside
Oct 2019
#45
McConnell's actual vote total is always much higher than the polls show. Don't celebrate yet.
Midnight Writer
Oct 2019
#34