{"id":1619136,"date":"2022-08-22T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619136"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:18:19","slug":"republicans-have-50-50%e2%80%b2-chance-of-taking-senate-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-have-50-50%e2%80%b2-chance-of-taking-senate-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Have \u201950-50\u2032 Chance of Taking Senate: Mitch McConnell"},"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\">18<\/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%2Frepublicans-have-50-50%25e2%2580%25b2-chance-of-taking-senate-mitch-mcconnell%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=1619136&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--><p>Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mitch-mcconnell\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-Ky.) said Republicans have a 50 percent chance of taking control of the Senate ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlipping the Senate, what are the chances? It\u2019s a 50\u201350 proposition. We\u2019ve got a 50\u201350 Senate right now. We\u2019ve got a 50\u201350 nation. And I think the outcome is likely to be very, very close either way,\u201d McConnell told the Scott County Chamber of Commerce on Monday, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell was referring to the Senate having 50 Republicans and 50 who caucus with Democrats. Vice President Kamala Harris serves as a tie-breaker for Democrats in the Senate, while Democrats have a slim majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf both the House and the Senate flip, I think the president will be a moderate,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cHe won\u2019t have any choice. And so, we\u2019ll try to find ways to make some progress for the country during the last two years of his term \u2026 but not big dramatic change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those comments came a week after he made a more dire prediction to local media by saying Republicans aren\u2019t likely to take the Senate. He blamed \u201ccandidate quality\u201d as the reason for the lowered expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans entered the 2022 campaign hopeful of capturing both chambers of Congress. Democrats are under pressure from inflation, high gas prices, President Joe Biden\u2019s poor job approval numbers, and historical political trends. The party of the president tends to lose seats in midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p> Trump Criticism <\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s previous comments drew the ire of former President Donald Trump, who again accused McConnell of having poor leadership qualities. The former president has called on Republicans to oust the longtime GOP leader since leaving the White House in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Truth Social, Trump described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kentucky\">Kentucky<\/a> lawmaker as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Republicans have a 50 percent chance of taking control of the Senate ahead of the November midterm elections. \u201cFlipping the Senate, what are the chances? It\u2019s a 50\u201350 proposition. We\u2019ve got a 50\u201350 Senate right now. We\u2019ve got a 50\u201350 nation. And I think the outcome is likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1619136","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\/1619136","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619136\/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=1619136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}