{"id":174472,"date":"2021-02-25T21:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=174472"},"modified":"2021-02-25T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:14:02","slug":"watch-mcconnell-refuses-to-attack-trump-in-interview-will-back-trump-if-2024-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-mcconnell-refuses-to-attack-trump-in-interview-will-back-trump-if-2024-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: McConnell Refuses To Attack Trump In Interview, Will Back Trump If 2024 Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-mcconnell-refuses-to-attack-trump-in-interview-will-back-trump-if-2024-nominee%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=174472&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mm-bb-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) repeatedly refused to attack former President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on Thursday evening, despite being nudged to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, we\u2019re just 12 days, Senator, since your really blistering speech on the Senate floor about former President Trump,\u201d Baier said several minutes into the interview as he then played clips from McConnell\u2019s post-Senate trial speech where he criticized Trump.<\/p>\n<p>When Baier tried to get a response from McConnell on the speech, McConnell said that was in the past, is not \u201crelevant now,\u201d and that the Republican Party is focused on \u201cmoving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got a new administration. It\u2019s a very left-wing administration. We need to make sure the American people understand that this is not what Republicans stand for,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cI want to say this about the president. Having chosen the progressive route, he certainly made it a lot easier for me to unify my members in opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about President Biden,\u201d Baier responded. \u201cBut the reason it\u2019s relevant \u2014 and, obviously, I\u2019m sure you read the lengthy statement from the former president, saying: \u2018The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political leaders like Senator Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell\u2019s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality has rapidly driven him from majority leader to minority leader.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes on very specifically,\u201d Baier pressed. \u201cWhen you read that, what was your reaction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party is actually in very good shape,\u201d McConnell responded. \u201cWe gained seats in the House, we elected 50 Republican senators when everybody was predicting we were going to lose the Senate. The Democrats didn\u2019t flip a single state legislature. We flipped two, picked up a governor. The Republican Party had a very good day on November 3 \u2026 the Republican Party demonstrated once again this is a 50\/50 nation. We\u2019re very competitive. And we will be competitive again in [2022].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you blame the former president for losing the two Georgia Senate seats?\u201d Baier pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any further observations to make about that,\u201d McConnell responded. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward, dealing with the new administration, and trying to hold the Senate in [2022].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baier continued to press McConnell on the issue of where he stands on the issue of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the former president be speaking at CPAC this weekend?\u201d Baier pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any advice to give the former president about where he should speak or what he should say,\u201d McConnell responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there a civil war in the GOP currently?\u201d Baier continued to press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d McConnell responded. \u201cI think if you\u2019re looking for a real civil war, look at the Democrats in the House, the progressives making it extremely difficult for Speaker Pelosi to operate, given the narrow margin she has overall in the House. I think the Biden administration is making it easy for us to get together, and I think we\u2019ve unified in opposition to this new administration\u2019s extremely progressive approach. President Biden has made it quite easy for us to get together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, Baier continued to press McConnell on the issue of Trump, asking, \u201cIf the president was the party\u2019s nominee, would you support him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nominee of the party?\u201d McConnell responded. \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few moments later, Baier again pressed, \u201cBut what would you say to Trump supporters who read the president\u2019s statement about you and are concerned about the future of the GOP?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I would say to everybody who\u2019s inclined to support our right-of-center Republican Party, let\u2019s focus on winning the House and the Senate in [2022],\u201d McConnell responded. \u201cThat will set up the next nominee for president, whoever that may be, the best chance to be victorious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mitch McConnell: Biden administration making it easy for GOP to unify\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkz_INkYDAc?start=369&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) repeatedly refused to attack former President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on Thursday evening, despite being nudged to do so. \u201cAll right, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274259,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mm-bb-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: McConnell Refuses To Attack Trump In Interview, Will Back Trump If 2024 Nominee","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mm-bb-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: McConnell Refuses To Attack Trump In Interview, Will Back Trump If 2024 Nominee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174472","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}