Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) acknowledged this week that the 2018 midterm cycle could prove especially difficult for the Republican Party in the face of increased Democratic voter enthusiasm.
In an interview with Kentucky Today, published Tuesday, McConnell admitted: “This is going to be a challenging election year."
“We know the wind is going to be in our face,” he continued. “We don’t know whether it’s going to be a Category 3, 4 or 5.”
McConnell said once again that the most important accomplishment, in his mind, of Donald Trump’s administration so far has been the number of conservative judicial appointments the president has gotten through.
Given the legacy of that Trump-era accomplishment, McConnell is more hopeful of retaining the Senate than the House, acknowledging that more transient policy changes like the GOP’s tax reform can simply be scrapped “the next time the political winds shift.”
“I’m hoping we can hold the Senate,” he said. “And the principle reason for that, even if we were to lose the House and be stymied legislatively, we could still approve appointments, which is a huge part of what we do.”
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16 comments:
They have no one to blame but themselves! They fight more between themselves than they do with the dumbocraps!
Mitch is wrong-- it won't be 'the wind' in their faces..
He needs to resign, along with the rest of his phony conservative swamp buddies.
totally agree. Nobodies fault but their own fighting and not allowing the Presidents agenda to move through the Congress and be passed since a lot of it only needs 51 votes
McConnell and the other rogue Republicans need to quit allowing Democrats to get their agenda through by voting with them and allowing Democrat bullies rule .
You get what you "axe" for Mitch.
They're just saying that to get complacent voters to the polls. When everyone is happy with the way things are going (i.e. good economy) they tend not to vote in the mid-terms.
So, if only snowflakes and pussy-hat wearers and "he's not MY president" voters show up, that could be some serious headwind.
Then again, very few millennials vote in the mid-terms, so....
The wind is in his face and Chinese money is in his bank account.
agree
We have not begun to fight
Mitch is liberal
Republicans are terrible about getting the message out. They assume people see through the mainstream propaganda but a lot don't. It's a shame. Clinton dynasty ruined American democracy.
President Trump doing a Great Job...the swamp rats like Mitch, Paul, Pelosi and Schumer and many more, must go.
Dave T: Let me be crystal clear, if the GOP loses, it's because of their own idiotic behavior, lack of organization, and inability to deliver a cohesive and consistent message. I am by far, not a liberal, now or ever. I'm a very disappointed independant conservative whose been abandoned by the Republican Party because of it's inability to support our president and its own people. Mitch, if you had a set of balls, we should hang you by them. Obozo never should or would have seen a second term if you clowns had your act together. But, I guess I'll sooner suck a hog through a straw before that happens.
It won’t be the wind. It’s going to be a snow storm from all the snowflakes ❄️ ❄️❄️❄️
I hope McConnell finds the shaft up his a$$ versus the wind in his face. He's a LIFER that has SCREWED us ... and he can take that traitor RYAN with him when he goes!
A few more shootings and the democrats will win on a gun control platform.
I don't know if that two-faced, bribe-taking, lying acewipe has noticed, but having a Republican majority hasn't done anything for the American people.
ANOTHER career politician.
Rope! More rope!!
Keep cheering.
I can only hope the wind he speaks of will blown his bad self home where he should be, along with many other RINO's. We don't have to lose the midterms, just replace some players. I think they call them actors today.
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