{"id":1683714,"date":"2022-10-11T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683714"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:10:40","slug":"trump-blasts-mcconnell-for-prioritizing-establishment-allies-over-a-senate-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-mcconnell-for-prioritizing-establishment-allies-over-a-senate-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blasts McConnell For Prioritizing Establishment Allies Over A Senate Majority"},"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%2Ftrump-blasts-mcconnell-for-prioritizing-establishment-allies-over-a-senate-majority%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=1683714&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 Donald Trump railed against Senate Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s effort to cement a GOP minority the Kentucky lawmaker can control as opposed to a Republican majority that would threaten his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday night statement, Trump highlighted McConnell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/21\/mcconnell-abandons-arizona-senate-race-to-maintain-a-gop-he-can-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abandonment <\/a>of the Arizona Senate race to support incumbent candidates who are loyal to the GOP minority leader, such as Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Murkowski\u2019s most competitive challenger this fall under the state\u2019s ranked-choice voting scheme is Kelly Tshibaka, a Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/new-alaska-senate-poll-reveals-lisa-murkowski-neck-and-neck-with-kelly-tshibaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polls show<\/a> is tied with the 20-year lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-scheme-was-a-plot-to-save-murkowski-but-it-also-doomed-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alaska\u2019s Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme Was A Plot To Save Murkowski, But It Also Doomed Palin<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly Tshibaka is doing very well in Alaska, probably leading horrendously bad Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican (barely!),\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cThe Democrat has no chance, and yet the Old Broken Crow, Mitchell McConnell, is authorizing $9 Million Dollars to be spent in order to beat a great Republican, Kelly, instead of $9 Million Dollars that could be used for Blake Masters, and other Republicans, that with this money could beat their Democrat opponent. Isn\u2019t it ironic?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1579601256355549184?s=20&amp;t=1Mo0NouC_2YhOtF8kuHWPw\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, the Anchorage Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/06\/independent-groups-spend-millions-on-ads-attacking-tshibaka-as-senate-race-heats-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that McConnell\u2019s super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, has poured more than $7 million into the Alaska Senate contest between two Republicans while stripping money from the ripe pick-up opportunity in Arizona. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/az\/arizona-senate-masters-vs-kelly-7390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to RealClearPolitics\u2019 latest aggregate of polls, Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters remains within 4 points of Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly \u2014 despite most polls being intentionally crafted to fit pre-determined media narratives and manipulate voter opinions toward Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>But Masters is no fan of McConnell. \u201cI only want to vote for a majority leader that\u2019s serious about implementing an America First agenda, and I don\u2019t mind saying that straight to Mitch McConnell,\u201d Masters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/05\/23\/blake_masters_i_would_support_a_viable_alternative_to_mitch_mcconnell_for_senate_leadership.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledged<\/a> in May during the Arizona Republican Senate primary.<\/p>\n<p>In August, McConnell canceled $8 million in spending for Masters, simultaneously pulling a comparatively low $1.7 million from the Alaskan race as a smokescreen to conceal his motives.<\/p>\n<p>Like Masters, Tshibaka, who is running with Trump\u2019s endorsement to oust Alaska\u2019s four-term incumbent, also pledged to support someone else for GOP Senate leader. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch McConnell has repeatedly bailed out Joe Biden, giving him gifts of Senate votes, which are the only things keeping the Biden administration on life support,\u201d Tshibaka said in a December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellyforak.com\/post\/kelly-tshibaka-statement-on-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In mid-September, McConnell\u2019s super PAC axed another $10 million from Arizona, canceling the rest of the group\u2019s spending in the state, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/mcconnell-dumps-another-million-into-alaska-to-save-murkowski-after-ditching-arizonas-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinjected money<\/a> into the Alaskan Senate contest to save Murkowski.<\/p>\n<p>After McConnell pulled out of Arizona, grassroots groups and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, led by Florida Sen. Rick Scott, have stepped in to save Masters. In September, Scott kicked off the general election season with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/rick-scott-savages-mitch-mcconnell-for-trying-to-sabotage-gop-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism <\/a>of McConnell\u2019s efforts to undermine chances for a GOP majority by complaining about \u201ccandidate quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,\u201d McConnell had <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/come-on-mitch-mcconnell-republicans-need-you-to-step-up-and-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said <\/a>on Fox News in August. \u201cSenate races are just different, they\u2019re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott fired back in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner. \u201cWe have great candidates with incredible backgrounds and ideas to make our country better,\u201d Scott\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/rick-scott-savages-mitch-mcconnell-for-trying-to-sabotage-gop-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cDo I wish they had more money than their Democratic opponent? Of course. But we have great candidates, chosen by the voters in their states, and our job is to help each one of them win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican Senatorial Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpyers\/status\/1574852290481164305?s=20&amp;t=1T2cNtwhrkg80kc0VDNYqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poured <\/a>more money into the Arizona Senate race than any other battleground contest this fall with a total of about $10 million. Far short of the nearly $20 million in spending McConnell canceled, grassroots conservative groups have pledged more support for Masters as a key pick-up. Last week, the Sentinel Action Fund, an independent super PAC aligned with Heritage Action for America, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/04\/exclusive-heritage-action-super-pac-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> a seven-figure ad buy behind Masters. The new ad blitz follows another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/heritage-action-steps-up-in-arizona-senate-race-after-mcconnell-pulls-8-million-from-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5 million<\/a> the group pledged in September. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/other\/FavorabilityRatingsPoliticalLeaders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to RealClearPolitics\u2019 aggregate of approval ratings for government leadership, McConnell is the most unpopular politician in America, with a net-negative approval of 33 points.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump railed against Senate Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s effort to cement a GOP minority the Kentucky lawmaker can control as opposed to a Republican majority that would threaten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"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-1683714","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\/1683714","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683714\/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=1683714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}