{"id":1782752,"date":"2022-12-21T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782752"},"modified":"2022-12-21T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:45:51","slug":"good-grief-mcconnell-claims-sending-ukraine-assistance-is-number-one-priority-for-most-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-grief-mcconnell-claims-sending-ukraine-assistance-is-number-one-priority-for-most-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief: McConnell Claims Sending Ukraine Assistance Is \u2018Number One Priority\u2019 For Most Republicans"},"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\">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%2Fgood-grief-mcconnell-claims-sending-ukraine-assistance-is-number-one-priority-for-most-republicans%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=1782752&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 you were hoping for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a> in the Senate to focus on stopping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/illegal-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invasion at the southern border<\/a> or spending its time exposing deep-state corruption, it would appear that you are out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=mitch+cmmconnel+dialywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=mitch+cmmconnel+dialywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j46i13i131i433i512j0i13i512j69i64l3j69i60l2.2850j0j9&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a>\u00a0(R-KY) claimed that the GOP\u2019s top objective is to provide Ukraine with more assistance \u2014 on top of the tens of billions the U.S. has already sent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians \u2014 that\u2019s the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans. That\u2019s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">McConnell: &#8220;Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That&#8217;s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPmzWRzoz1\">pic.twitter.com\/NPmzWRzoz1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1605301253952589824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McConnell: &quot;Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans. That&#39;s how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPmzWRzoz1\">pic.twitter.com\/NPmzWRzoz1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1605301253952589824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Many in The Daily Wire audience may be reading this article in between calculating Christmas soaring expenses due to inflation or making sure that their kids\u2019 holiday pageant isn\u2019t filled with drag queens and other perversities. For those concerned parents, McConnell\u2019s comment may have come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>To that extent, his remarks make a lot more sense when you consider he is likely only talking about Republicans in Washington, D.C., and not anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, since May, McConnell has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mitch-mcconnell-claims-we-all-agree-the-most-important-thing-going-on-in-the-world-right-now-is-the-war-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated that his Republican Party<\/a> \u2014 he is the Senate leader of it after all \u2014 is focused squarely on the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we all agree the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine,\u201d McConnell told reporters in early May.<\/p>\n<p>He even boasted about his efficiency working with President Joe Biden on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a chance to call the president last week and request that the Ukraine package move by itself and quickly,\u201d he added. \u201cHe said, let me think it over. He called back in about 15 minutes and agreed that we need to do this for Ukraine only, and quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polling at the time indicated that helping Ukraine was not \u201cthe most important thing going on in the world.\u201d Inflation, illegal immigration, and the economy routinely ranked among the most important issues throughout the summer into the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell and other GOP leaders opted to focus on others things \u2014 instead of presenting solutions to those problems.<\/p>\n<p>The American people had nothing to vote for \u2014 except a GOP leader pledging to go to bat with Biden for a nation that most people can\u2019t identify on a map.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a <a href=\"https:\/\/navigatorresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Navigator-Post-Election-Survey-Release-11.16.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent survey<\/a> from Navigator Research found that amongst \u201cstraight Republican\u201d voters in the 2022 midterms, a measly 14% of them said \u201cNational security and foreign policy, including Ukraine\u201d was amongst their \u201cmost important issues\u201d deciding their vote in Congress. On the other hand, 64% of those voters included inflation, 45% said border security, 40% said jobs and the economy, and 35% noted crime as their top concern.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, \u201cmost Republicans\u201d do not agree with McConnell. Instead, they are probably wondering when America is going to have a viable opposition party to the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it looks like that only exists in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>After 21 Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2022\/12\/20\/senate-lurches-towards-conclusion-on-massive-spending-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> to advance the nearly $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page spending bill \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/45-billion-ukraine-aid-included-17-trillion-government\/story?id=95614726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">includes<\/a> $45 billion in Ukraine aid \u2014 Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) blasted his colleagues in the upper house. He also provided a translation of what the vote means<\/p>\n<p>Roy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1605555317802209281?s=20&amp;t=3T-tQqWNstrnOaB_pqDA8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the message is that \u201cdefense spending \u2014 for us &amp; Ukraine \u2014 trumps Americans\u2019 concerns about mounting debt, out-of-control bureaucrats, and wide open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means \u2018we\u2019re the adults in the room, so sit down while we continue the status quo &amp; cut big $ deals with Democrats rather than even sit down with a new GOP majority &amp; work it out among Republicans,&#8217;\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>That translation is appreciated \u2014 though it might be better said in the Ukrainian language if Roy wants McConnell to understand it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were hoping for Republicans in the Senate to focus on stopping the invasion at the southern border or spending its time exposing deep-state corruption, it would appear that you are out of luck. On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-KY) claimed that the GOP\u2019s top objective is to provide Ukraine with more assistance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1890739,"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":"Good Grief: McConnell Claims Sending Ukraine Assistance Is \u2018Number One Priority\u2019 For Most Republicans","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9369,6962,3731,4856,6202,5461,10883,5194,4244,4821,5537,4157,3756,5193,6991,6195],"class_list":["post-1782752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-for","tag-the","tag-assistance","tag-claims","tag-daily","tag-good","tag-grief","tag-mcconnell","tag-most","tag-number","tag-one","tag-priority","tag-republicans","tag-sending","tag-ukraine","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Good Grief: McConnell Claims Sending Ukraine Assistance Is \u2018Number One Priority\u2019 For Most Republicans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782752","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}