{"id":1635678,"date":"2022-09-07T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635678"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:35:22","slug":"grassley-optimistic-about-gop-flipping-senate-after-gloomy-predictions-from-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-optimistic-about-gop-flipping-senate-after-gloomy-predictions-from-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley Optimistic About GOP Flipping Senate After Gloomy Predictions From 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\">22<\/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%2Fgrassley-optimistic-about-gop-flipping-senate-after-gloomy-predictions-from-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=1635678&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 Judiciary Ranking Member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-chuck-grassley\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-Iowa) suggested in a recent interview that he disagrees with past statements by GOP leadership downplaying Republican prospects in the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, members of both parties are preparing for a tough battle as Democrats seek to hold on to a slim majority in the evenly-divided Senate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republicans\">Republicans<\/a> seek to retake the chamber after a two-year stint in the minority. Though 34 seats are up for reelection, only a few are in play, and observers remain divided on who will emerge with the majority after the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a statement that caused a rift in the Republican Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-senate-minority-leader-mitch-mcconnell\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-Ky.) suggested some pessimism over his party\u2019s prospects at the end of August, saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-have-50-50-chance-of-taking-senate-mitch-mcconnell_4680612.html\">GOP only has a \u201c50-50\u201d chance<\/a> of retaking the majority.<\/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 Georgetown\/Scott County Chamber of Commerce in Kentucky when asked about the race.<\/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>Following the statement, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)\u2014chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the top Senate GOP electioneering and fundraising group\u2014blasted back in a statement that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) suggested in a recent interview that he disagrees with past statements by GOP leadership downplaying Republican prospects in the 2022 midterms. Currently, members of both parties are preparing for a tough battle as Democrats seek to hold on to a slim majority in the evenly-divided Senate and Republicans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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-1635678","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\/1635678","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635678\/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=1635678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}