Who didn’t see this coming? Certainly, Mitch McConnell did. The Senate Majority Leader waited 42 days to acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president-elect. Undoubtedly part of his hesitation was the predictable wrath from the right and how the backlash would impact the Georgia Senate runoffs. We are now seeing both of those scenes play out, and the president himself is taking part.
And despite being a loyal ally of Donald Trump over the last four years, the tweeter-in chief-shared a post from a Trump campaign attorney who wrote McConnell “is NOT a Patriot.”
It’s especially ironic to see some Trump supporters call McConnell a RINO (Republican in name only). Note: McConnell has been a loyal Republican for decades longer than the current president.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin wrote:
Thanks for nothing, Mitch… Trump helped you secure your seat, as he did so man Senate and House seats, and you couldn’t even wait until January 6th. You’ve been the GOP “leader” in the Senate for far too long. It’s time for some fresh thinking and new blood.
Over on conservative social media site Parler, McConnell is being roasted.
Of course, McConnell was just re-elected for another six-year term, but that hasn’t stopped people from calling for him to get “fired.”
If Republicans lose both senate races in Georgia, they would then be the minority party in the Senate, so in a sense, McConnell would be relieved of his leadership post.
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