{"id":1742702,"date":"2022-11-17T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742702"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:17:38","slug":"senate-republicans-keep-showing-us-why-they-never-deserved-a-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-keep-showing-us-why-they-never-deserved-a-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Keep Showing Us Why They Never Deserved A 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%2Fsenate-republicans-keep-showing-us-why-they-never-deserved-a-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=1742702&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>If Republican voters had any lingering doubts about whether their party deserved to lose the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, the Senate GOP just gave them a whole host of reasons to reaffirm such suspicions. In a less than 24-hour period, Republican senators took a series of actions that ran contrary to the wishes of their base, from reelecting Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as leader of the Senate GOP to trampling on traditional marriage.<\/p>\n<p>In a vote held behind closed doors on Wednesday, McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/mcconnell-wins-senate-leadership-election-overcomes-scott-challenge\/ar-AA14bMI7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> secured the votes of 37 Republican senators to maintain his position as party leader. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who launched a last-minute bid to unseat McConnell, received only 10 votes.<\/p>\n<p>While a full breakdown of the vote has not yet been released, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/11\/after-epic-failure-growing-chorus-of-senators-signals-its-time-for-mcconnell-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and several of his GOP colleagues<\/a> motioned for the party\u2019s leadership vote to be delayed until after Georgia\u2019s Dec. 6 Senate runoff between Democrat incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker. The motion ultimately failed, with 32 rejecting the proposal and 16 supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>Following the vote, McConnell giddily ran to the press to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/mcconnell-wins-senate-leadership-election-overcomes-scott-challenge\/ar-AA14bMI7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclaim<\/a> to Republican voters that he\u2019s \u201cnot going anywhere,\u201d after indirectly bashing grassroots GOP Senate candidates with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/11\/media-propagandists-will-never-play-fair-no-matter-how-quality-the-gop-candidate-or-lousy-the-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">candidate quality<\/a>\u201d talking point the day before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned some lessons about this [election cycle] and I think the lesson is pretty clear: Senate races are different. Candidate quality \u2014 you recall I said in August \u2014 is important,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3737976-mcconnell-defeats-scott-in-last-minute-race-for-senate-gop-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> McConnell\u2019s Midterm Meddling <\/p>\n<p>In his bid to maintain his position as party leader, McConnell worked throughout the 2022 midterms to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/the-case-against-mitch-mcconnell-for-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sabotage<\/a> several battleground-state GOP Senate candidates who had pledged not to support him for leadership if they were elected to the upper chamber. In Arizona, McConnell\u2019s Senate Leadership Fund cut $18 million in ad spending from Republican Blake Masters, while the group simultaneously slashed $5.6 million in New Hampshire that was intended for Don Bolduc. <\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, McConnell redirected many of these funds to Alaska, where incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski was facing off against conservative Republican Kelly Tshibaka. Even though it was all but guaranteed that a Republican would win the seat, McConnell proceeded to spend over $6 million in ads attacking Tshibaka, who said she would not back McConnell\u2019s bid for party leader.<\/p>\n<p> Disrespect for Marriage <\/p>\n<p>Despite conservatives\u2019 justified animus towards McConnell, Senate Republicans decided they weren\u2019t quite finished betraying their voters on Wednesday. Hours after the party\u2019s leadership vote, a dozen GOP senators seemingly thought to themselves, \u201cAh, why not?\u201d and jumped in bed with Senate Democrats to advance a measure seeking to rewrite the definition of marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Known as the \u201cRespect for Marriage Act,\u201d the legislation would <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/15\/gop-senators-top-priority-after-failed-midterms-is-helping-democrats-trample-the-meaning-of-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open the door<\/a> for left-wing activist groups to declare a legal war against religious Americans and institutions choosing to follow the Word of God. The bill could potentially allow for \u201copen marriages [and] marriages involving a minor or relative,\u201d and also leaves the door open for concepts like leftists\u2019 radical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Senate Republicans were looking for anyone to blame for their disastrous performance in the midterms, they need only look in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1742705,"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-1742702","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\/1742702","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}