Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is 76 years old and the 2018 midterm elections lie between now and his next re-election campaign in 2020. But with his approval rating at 30 percent in Kentucky, McConnell isn’t taking anything for granted. He’s already getting his campaign machinery up and running, planning for both a primary challenge from the hard right and for a Democratic general election opponent—and he’s planning to run for re-election as mean and dirty as he runs the U.S. Senate:
“Anyone who will run against him will be put through a blender,” said Scott Jennings, a longtime McConnell confidant, “the likes of which they’ve never experienced.”
In 2014, McConnell campaigned hard on the notion that his leadership position helped the state, even if voters didn’t really like him. So one way to damage McConnell in 2020 would be to damage or end his Republican majority.
Make Mitch McConnell sad. Can you give $3 to elect Democrats in Nevada and Arizona?