It’s been less than two years since Mitch McConnell fulfilled his long-held ambition to become Senate Majority Leader, and now he sees it all slipping away—in large part because of the impending Republican nightmare of Donald Trump getting its party’s nomination. And with 34 24 Republican Senate seats up for grabs (compared to 10 Democratic seats), what’s a Senate Majority Leader to do if the standard-bearer for his party is a racist, bigoted, misogynistic, violence-inciting nutcase? Apparently Mitch has a solution for his brethren who are up for re-election:
"We will drop him like a hot rock ..."
Of course this would be a rather incendiary remark for McConnell to make about the probable Republican nominee, so on Sunday, on CNN’s State of the Union, Dana Bash asked McConnell if he did indeed say it:
“No, what -- no. Yes …”
(Let’s call that a “yes.”)
McConnell went on to say that they would “run individual races no matter who the presidential nominee is”—you can almost feel his pathetic hope that it’s not Trump—and that:
Senate races are statewide races. You can craft your own message for your own people. And that's exactly what we intend to do this fall, no matter who the nominee is.
Uh huh. Because that will work.
No one will ever ask the Republican candidates to respond to Trump’s outrage du jour, or ask if they support his moronic policies. Rock, meet hard place. Because if those Republican candidates don’t embrace whatever garbage Trump is spewing on any given day, they will enrage the base. And if they don’t distance themselves from said garbage, they will disgust the moderate Republicans, the right-of-center Democrats, and the independent voters. So good luck with that crafting strategy, Turtle-Man.
Mitch’s only real hope is a contested convention where anyone-but-Trump is nominated. Which, rumor has it, could lead to riots …
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