If the GOP wants to win again, they’ll reject McConnell and find younger leadership that is ready to build a new party to serve the middle class, not the ruling class.
By Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who currently holds what I suppose we now call the Office of the Outgoing Senate Majority Leader, has to go. He’s a man unsuited for the times. The results prove it.
It is McConnell who has been the architect of Republican defeat in the Senate. Heading into the 2016 election, there were 54 Republican senators. After the election there were 52. Then, in 2018, McConnell backed the disastrous candidacy of Martha McSally for an open seat in Arizona. It was McConnell who picked her and crowded out other viable candidates. That year McSally lost by 2.4 percentage points to Kyrsten Sinema while, at the same time, Republican Doug Ducey cruised to a nearly 15-point win as Arizona’s governor.
Voters didn’t reject Republicans as such;
they rejected McSally. McConnell then lobbied for McSally to be
appointed to the seat vacated by John McCain, setting up another McSally
defeat at the hands of Mark Kelly in November. Again, she trailed the
Republican at the top of ticket, under performing Donald Trump. And once
again, it was McConnell’s doing. In Arizona he helped engineer the loss
of two Republican senate seats in two years by handpicking a candidate
Arizonans didn’t want.............To Read More......
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