{"id":1741795,"date":"2022-11-17T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741795"},"modified":"2022-11-17T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:02:34","slug":"why-re-electing-mcconnell-as-senate-leader-was-the-best-gift-the-gop-establishment-could-give-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-re-electing-mcconnell-as-senate-leader-was-the-best-gift-the-gop-establishment-could-give-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Re-Electing McConnell As Senate Leader Was The Best Gift The GOP Establishment Could Give Trump"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwhy-re-electing-mcconnell-as-senate-leader-was-the-best-gift-the-gop-establishment-could-give-trump%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=1741795&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 Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was re-elected to another term as GOP conference chief on Wednesday after an underwhelming midterm performance kept Republicans from taking a majority in the upper chamber. But McConnell\u2019s win as Republicans lose is just going to be more ammo for former President Donald Trump, who announced a third bid for the White House just one night before the Senate leader\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Trump nor McConnell looks triumphant after last week\u2019s elections. Many of Trump\u2019s top candidates lost key races while McConnell emerges as the culprit for losing the majority. McConnell\u2019s PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), re-routed scarce resources from competitive pick-up opportunities to the Alaska Senate contest between two Republicans. But while several Trump-backed candidates never made it across the finish line, Trump did not deliberately sabotage the effort. McConnell did, and for it, he draw a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/rick-scott-launches-leadership-challenge-to-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last-minute leadership challenge<\/a> from Florida Sen. Rick Scott. <\/p>\n<p>Scott, also a popular former two-term governor of Florida, chaired the National Republican Senate Committee this cycle, spending millions on candidates McConnell had abandoned in competitive pick-up races. The NRSC spent heavily in Arizona and New Hampshire, in particular, where the SLF had dropped Republican candidates who had <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/26\/mcconnell-super-pac-bails-on-new-hampshire-senate-race-after-polls-show-a-dead-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledged opposition<\/a> to McConnell for leader.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the challenge, McConnell captured another two years in leadership in a vote of 37-10 by secret ballot. One senator abstained. The vote came less than 24 hours after Trump\u2019s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/donald-trump-is-running-for-president-again-washington-would-be-wise-to-remember-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement <\/a>from Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s comeback starts right now,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYour country is being destroyed before your eyes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>All the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/national\/national-politics\/fundamentals-favor-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fundamentals <\/a>going into the 2022 Election Day indicated <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-case-for-a-republican-sweep-on-election-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans would sweep<\/a> the midterms. Inflation at a four-decade high has left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/24\/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html#:~:text=Investing%20Club-,63%25%20of%20Americans%20are%20living%20paycheck%20to%20paycheck%20%E2%80%94%20including%20nearly,half%20of%20six%2Dfigure%20earners&#038;text=With%20persistent%20inflation%20eroding%20wage,according%20to%20a%20recent%20report.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">63 percent<\/a> of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Security at the southern border is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/10\/22\/border-patrol-migrant-encounters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a joke<\/a>, and crime has become so widespread nationwide that leftist district attorneys even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/3-takeaways-from-the-successful-recall-of-san-franciscos-progressive-district-attorney-chesa-boudin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fell <\/a>on the electoral chopping block. More than<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/590951-majorities-in-new-poll-say-us-headed-in-wrong-direction\/\"> 70 percent<\/a> of Americans said they believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, and just <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/329384\/presidential-approval-ratings-joe-biden.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40 percent<\/a> said they approve of President Joe Biden. Where midterms are a referendum on the president and party in power, the outlook for Democrats looked as bleak as the Titanic headed for an iceberg. <\/p>\n<p>But then election night came, and Republicans, with McConnell at the helm, failed to capture a majority in the Senate. Control of the House wasn\u2019t even called until a week later, with Republicans edging out Democrats with a razor-thin majority far smaller than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s challenge to McConnell reflects the frustration over the Senate leader\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/the-case-against-mitch-mcconnell-for-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">backdoor <\/a>efforts to capture a controllable minority over an effective majority. McConnell not only pulled away from key races, but he also whined publicly about purportedly bad GOP candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,\u201d McConnell <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 late August. \u201cSenate races are just different. They\u2019re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When McConnell and his allies complain about \u201ccandidate quality,\u201d however,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s power is in his willingness and ability to represent the voter forgotten by the establishment. McConnell gives Trump a target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1741798,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1741795","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=1741795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}