{"id":1623062,"date":"2022-08-26T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623062"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:34:23","slug":"trump-mcconnell-spat-distracting-from-gops-work-to-defeat-democrats-in-midterms-strategists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-mcconnell-spat-distracting-from-gops-work-to-defeat-democrats-in-midterms-strategists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-McConnell Spat Distracting From GOP\u2019s Work to Defeat Democrats in Midterms, Strategists Say"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftrump-mcconnell-spat-distracting-from-gops-work-to-defeat-democrats-in-midterms-strategists-say%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=1623062&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><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The swift escalation of the feud between former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not help inspire candidates or rally GOP voters in closely watched midterm races in swing states, some political strategists and analysts have told The Epoch Times. The Republican Party infighting may ultimately lead to more disappointing results in the midterms than have been predicted in recent months, unless party leaders can unite on the issues that the electorate cares about most to galvanize voters, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the former president and expected 2024 candidate sent out a fiery\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/108858312481973600\">post<\/a> on Truth Social, in which he called McConnell \u201ca broken down hack politician\u201d and denounced the senator\u2019s perceived tendency \u201cto openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-united-states\">United States<\/a> Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an affront to honor and to leadership,\u201d Trump wrote, adding that McConnell \u201cshould spend more time (and money) helping them get elected\u201d and less time helping his wife and family get \u201crich on China!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s wife is Elaine Chao, who served as Secretary of Transportation during the Trump administration. Trump\u2019s post was in response to McConnell having cast doubt on the quality of Republican candidates in the primaries that have taken place in recent weeks and in the ongoing midterm races. On Aug. 17, McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/mitch-mcconnell-sounds-alarm-on-republicans-chances-of-retaking-senate-in-2022-midterms_4673715.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, in the course of remarks at a luncheon in Kentucky, \u201cI think there\u2019s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different\u2014they\u2019re statewide, quality has a lot to do with the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell went on to comment on what he sees as the likely razor-thin margins of victory for either side in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think, when all is said and done this fall,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis The swift escalation of the feud between former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not help inspire candidates or rally GOP voters in closely watched midterm races in swing states, some political strategists and analysts have told The Epoch Times. The Republican Party infighting may ultimately lead to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":669,"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-1623062","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\/1623062","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\/669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623062\/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=1623062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}