{"id":1623135,"date":"2022-08-26T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623135"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:51:21","slug":"trump-calls-for-mitch-mcconnell-to-be-removed-as-gop-leader-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-mitch-mcconnell-to-be-removed-as-gop-leader-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls for Mitch McConnell to Be Removed as GOP Leader \u2018Immediately\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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-calls-for-mitch-mcconnell-to-be-removed-as-gop-leader-immediately%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=1623135&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>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday called for the immediate ouster of Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mitch-mcconnell\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-Ky.) from his leadership position.<\/p>\n<p>While commenting on an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/24\/trump-is-right-mitch-mcconnell-and-elaine-chao-spent-decades-getting-rich-on-china\/?utm_medium=email_hf&amp;utm_source=ncl__&amp;utm_campaign=20220824___sa&amp;utm_content=__5063&amp;_nlid=4g7CmEzHeW&amp;_nhids=EVYVSZND\">article<\/a> about connections between McConnell\u2019s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Chinese Communist Party-linked business ventures, the 45th president said McConnell needs to be removed from the Senate leadership spot that he\u2019s long held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch McConnell is not an Opposition Leader, he is a pawn for the Democrats to get whatever they want,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cHe is afraid of them, and will not do what has to be done. A new Republican Leader in the Senate should be picked immediately!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump targeted McConnell, who he has called an \u201cOld Crow,\u201d following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. McConnell, who denounced Trump after the incident, has since rarely responded to Trump\u2019s criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>But recently, Trump ramped up criticism of McConnell and Chao after the Senate leader issued warnings about whether Republicans can take control of the Senate during the 2022 midterms, claiming \u201ccandidate quality\u201d in certain races could be a problem. Later, McConnell told reporters that there is a 50 percent chance the GOP regains control of the Senate, which Democrats currently control by a razor-thin margin.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Trump said Republicans need to elect a new Senate GOP leader to boost their chances in the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re going to do very well,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/trump-calls-mcconnell-a-broken-down-hack-over-midterm-prediction\/\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cWe need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not done a great job\u2014I think they should change Mitch McConnell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, the former commander-in-chief pilloried McConnell\u2019s support and affirmative vote on a gun control bill that would provide more federal funding to enforce red flag laws and other measures, which came after several high-profile mass shootings in Texas and New York.<\/p>\n<p>The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the immediate ouster of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his leadership position. While commenting on an article about connections between McConnell\u2019s wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Chinese Communist Party-linked business ventures, the 45th president said McConnell needs to be removed from the Senate [\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-1623135","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\/1623135","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=1623135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623135\/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=1623135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}