{"id":1213747,"date":"2022-01-13T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213747"},"modified":"2022-01-13T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:04:19","slug":"lindsey-graham-mcconnell-must-have-a-working-relationship-with-trump-to-lead-senate-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsey-graham-mcconnell-must-have-a-working-relationship-with-trump-to-lead-senate-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham: McConnell Must Have A \u2018Working Relationship\u2019 With Trump To Lead Senate GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flindsey-graham-mcconnell-must-have-a-working-relationship-with-trump-to-lead-senate-gop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham late Wednesday refused to explicitly say that he would support Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead the Senate GOP next Congress, adding that any leader must have a working relationship with former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be a Republican leader in the House or Senate, you have to have a working relationship with President Donald Trump,\u201d Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1481452032292634626?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Fox News. \u201cHe\u2019s the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan. It\u2019s his nomination if he wants it, and I\u2019ll think he\u2019ll get reelected in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Senator McConnell,\u201d Graham said. \u201cCan Senator McConnell effectively work with the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump? I\u2019m not going to vote for anybody that can\u2019t have a working relationship with President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t do that, you will fail,\u201d Graham added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Graham: If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate, you have to have a working relationship with Trump. Can Senator McConnell effectively work with the Donald Trump. I\u2019m not going to vote for anybody that can\u2019t have a working relationship with Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/boOjekgyTT\">pic.twitter.com\/boOjekgyTT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1481452032292634626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McConnell said earlier this week that he plans to run for another term as the top Senate Republican, even as Trump has continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/07\/trump-gop-senators-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticize<\/a> him. Trump recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/09\/old-crow-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lambasted<\/a> McConnell for his voting for the bipartisan infrastructure bill and working with Democrats to lift the debt ceiling, and Trump. had already criticized him for refusing to endorse Trump\u2019s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/10\/donald-trump-mike-rounds-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Trump Vows To Never Again Endorse Mike Rounds After He Said 2020 Election Was Fair)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several Trump-endorsed Senate candidates have said they <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/13\/kelly-tshibaka-unloads-mitch-mcconnell-wont-support-him-as-leader-lisa-murkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will not support McConnell<\/a> if they win, as other top Senate Republicans have come to McConnell\u2019s defense and broken with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham late Wednesday refused to explicitly say that he would support Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead the Senate GOP next Congress, adding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}