Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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McConnell, known for keeping in touch with reporters in the Capitol corridors, declined to answer questions about the former president’s comments.
Asked extensively about Trump’s comments or if he had anything he “would like to say,” McConnell made no comment. He is likely to face questions again on Tuesday when he holds his weekly press conference.
During a speech Saturday to members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) at former President Mar-a-Lago’s private complex in Florida, Trump fired McConnell because the minority leader did not support the revocation of the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress.
“If it were Schumer instead of this dumb son of a bitch Mitch McConnell, they would never allow it. They would have fought it, “Trump told RNC members gathered, according to the Washington Post, referring to the Senate majority leader Charles Schumer
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Trump, according to the Post, also called McConnell a “loser of the cold.”
Trump and McConnell were close allies for most of his presidency despite their 180-degree stylistic differences, with Trump being known for being impertinent and light-hearted and McConnell publicly and strategically reserved. Trump has publicly praised McConnell, particularly for his work in confirming judicial candidates, and McConnell avoided avoiding some of the former president’s biggest controversies.
But a massive rift opened between the two after Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was “cheated” and “stolen.”
McConnell, who waited until December 15, the day after the Electoral College certification President Biden
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While he voted for Trump’s acquittal during the impeachment trial earlier this year, he also accused him of being “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6 attack in which a crowd of pro-Trump supporters raped him. the Capitol.
McConnell has avoided directly mentioning or criticizing Trump since his dust sparked concerns about a Republican Party civil war that would lead to elections in 2022, when the party hopes to regain the Senate.
Republican National Senate Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) Presented a new award to Trump over the weekend that the campaign arm described as aimed at “conservative leaders who have worked tirelessly to create good jobs, protect the values that make our country great, and stop the socialist agenda of the Democrats. “
Scott said Monday that he awarded the prize to Trump on Friday, before Trump mocked the Senate Republican Party leader.
Asked about Trump’s statements about McConnell, Scott said, “I think he’s one of the smartest SOBs I know.”
Other Republican senators also urged the two to examine their differences and focus on the party and the next election cycle.
“I think he ventured into a gang of donors and, you know, I think in the end what they should both focus on is how to get the majority of the Senate back,” the senator said. John Thune
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Thune added that the future of the relationship was “difficult to predict”, but that “hopefully there will be some kind of truce”.
“I think it’s in everyone’s best interest, I think including the former president if he wants to remain politically viable, to help us win the majority in 2022, and that means working with Senate Republicans, not against them,” he said. dir Thune.
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Wing), who joined Trump during the 2020 election, said Republicans had “enough problems without fighting within us.”
“Sometimes it makes people argue, you know, with each other, and then you drop the whole team. So it’s almost like I think that … We don’t need to argue with teammates,” Tuberville said.