Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., age 80, beat challenger Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to be re-elected as Senate minority leader Wednesday. The vote was 37-10.
The failure of Republicans to generate their expected “red wave” in the midterm elections has roiled the party.
McConnell said at a news conference Wednesday that the Republican Party’s failure to pick up seats and win the majority in the Senate can be blamed on too much chaos and too much negativity by Republican candidates.
“Here’s the problem,” McConnell said. “We underperformed among voters who did not like President Biden’s performance, among independents and among moderate Republicans who looked at us and concluded too much chaos, too much negativity, and we turned off a lot of these centrist voters, which is why I never predicted a red wave to begin with.”
McConnell’s secret ballot win over Scott happened after a motion by 16 GOP senators to delay the leadership election was defeated.
As GOP senators called for auditing the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Scott accused former committee chair Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., of paying unauthorized and improper bonuses to committee staff in 2020.
Citing a letter Scott sent to GOP senator’s seeking their votes, NBC News said Scott told them it’s time for Senate Republican conference to be “far more bold and resolute that we have been in the past.”
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was nominated by his party to be House speaker as the GOP was one seat short of winning a majority in the House. But the 188-31 nomination vote was short of the 218 votes he will need to actually become House Speaker.
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The Republican version of Nancy Pelosi.
For years, i’ve railed at folks who said that the republicans are NO DIFFERENT than the dems..
WHEN They keep making ‘mistakes’ like this, its getting harder and harder to NOT AGREE with those folks..
Another big Republican mistake. He has far outlived his value to the party
Power is like a drug, it’s difficult to give up and harder to when to admit the time has arrived. Congress is no longer the same as it once was, it has become an arena of bitter fightinc, vitriolic accusations, certainly no longer ‘we agree to disagree’ body that was willing to work toward a common goal of United States because a form of separatism has taken hold of the country. It will take a form of a street fighter to temper the rogue Democrats!
THIS IS WHY we need both AGE limits for those serving, AND TERM LIMITS!!!!!
R I N O S there are to many left we must weed them out.
That’s assuming we even CAN weed them out..