{"id":1737229,"date":"2022-11-13T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737229"},"modified":"2022-11-13T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:47:59","slug":"tom-cotton-urges-gop-to-push-ahead-with-leadership-elections-despite-party-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-urges-gop-to-push-ahead-with-leadership-elections-despite-party-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cotton Urges GOP To Push Ahead With Leadership Elections, Despite Party Unrest"},"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%2Ftom-cotton-urges-gop-to-push-ahead-with-leadership-elections-despite-party-unrest%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=1737229&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>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged Senate Republicans to proceed with their leadership elections despite reported unrest within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on CBS\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/cotton-says-he-backs-mcconnell-for-gop-senate-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Face the Nation<\/a>\u201d on Sunday, Cotton pointed out that no senator has stepped up to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for leadership, so the caucus should move forward with the elections and focus on the upcoming runoff in the Georgia Senate race. Cotton\u2019s comments come as multiple Republican senators upset with McConnell\u2019s performance are calling for new leadership and a delayed vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t see why we would delay the election, since all five or six of our leadership elections are uncontested,\u201d said Cotton. \u201cYou know, the great wrestling champion Ric Flair used to say, \u2018To be the man, you got to beat the man.\u2019 And so far, no one\u2019s had the nerve to step forward and challenge Senator McConnell. So, I support Senator McConnell. I support the other slate of candidates for our leadership elections. I think it\u2019s better that we move forward with these elections, so we can focus again on the Georgia runoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-lawmakers-push-for-change-in-congressional-leadership-after-lackluster-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing to delay<\/a> the leadership elections. Some senators also expressed concern over the conference\u2019s agenda and whether the party is working in the best interests of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have serious discussions within our conference as to why and what we can do to improve our chances in 2024,\u201d Senators Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, and Rick Scott wrote in a letter to the Senate GOP. \u201cHolding leadership elections without hearing from the candidates as to how they will perform their leadership duties and before we know whether we will be in the majority or even who all our members are violates the most basic principles of a democratic process. It is certainly not the way leadership elections should be conducted in the world\u2019s greatest deliberative body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate GOP leadership vote next week should be postponed,\u201d Florida Senator Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1591112183945269251\">tweeted<\/a> Friday. \u201cFirst we need to make sure that those who want to lead us are genuinely committed to fighting for the priorities &#038; values of the working Americans (of every background) who gave us big wins in states like #Florida.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExactly right,\u201d Missouri GOP Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1591113869925441536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hawley<\/a> replied to Rubio. \u201cI don\u2019t know why Senate GOP would hold a leadership vote for the next Congress before this election is finished. We have a runoff in #GASenate \u2013 are they saying that doesn\u2019t matter? Don\u2019t disenfranchise @HerschelWalker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged Senate Republicans to proceed with their leadership elections despite reported unrest within the party. Appearing on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d on Sunday, Cotton pointed out that no senator has stepped up to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for leadership, so the caucus should move forward with the elections &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1629795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737229","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}