{"id":2031013,"date":"2023-09-13T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnells-unpopularity-a-mystery-to-romney-i-dont-understand-that\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T22:49:01","slug":"mcconnells-unpopularity-a-mystery-to-romney-i-dont-understand-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnells-unpopularity-a-mystery-to-romney-i-dont-understand-that\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell&#8217;s unpopularity a &#8216;mystery&#8217; to Romney: &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand that&#8217;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmcconnells-unpopularity-a-mystery-to-romney-i-dont-understand-that%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=2031013&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. Mitt Romney (R-UT) publicly questioned why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) polls so poorly during a press conference after announcing his retirement from the Senate on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI have a great deal of respect for Leader McConnell and one of the mysteries to me is why he is so unpopular in national polls. I don\u2019t understand that,\u201d Romney said. \u201cHe is the single reason why we have a conservative Supreme Court. I hope people recognize that. <\/p>\n<p> REPUBLICAN THREAT BECOMES REAL FOR BIDEN AFTER IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY <\/p>\n<p> \u201cHe is also a very effective leader of our group, when you have 50 people, a Republican group, 50 of us \u2014 every one of them thinks they ought to be president. How you lead a group like that isn\u2019t easy and he has done it with skill over a number of years. I have nothing but the highest respect for him,\u201d the Utah senator added. <\/p>\n<p> Romney\u2019s praise for the Republican leader comes after a growing majority of Americans expressed concerns about the impact of McConnell&#8217;s age and health on his job performance, according to a new poll released last week. <\/p>\n<p> The poll found a majority of Democrats and Republicans said McConnell\u2019s health and age \u201cseverely limit [his] ability to do the job.\u201d The poll was conducted days after the Kentucky senator appeared to freeze at the podium for about 30 seconds when speaking with reporters in his home state, the second incident that happened in a matter of months. According to a RealClearPolitics average of recent polls, McConnell has a 60.7% unfavorable rating, compared to 22.7% who view the Republican leader favorability. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI have had personal conversations and private conversations and his public pronouncements and I\u2019ve been nothing but more impressed with him,\u201d Romney said. <\/p>\n<p> McConnell in turn praised Romney in a statement after the Utah senator announced he would not run for reelection next year. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe junior senator for Utah has made remarkably efficient use of his brief tenure in the Senate to deliver on important promises to people he represents \u2014 from sensible management of America\u2019s public lands to reduced reliance on China for critical supply chains,&#8221; McConnell said. <\/p>\n<p> Romney, a frequent Donald Trump critic who voted to impeach the former president twice, panned the Trump legacy. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Trump wing of the party, I haven\u2019t heard policy, other than build a wall. By the way, he was president, he was president for four years, he built 50 miles,\u201d Romney said. <\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/p>\n<p> The Utah senator also emphasized he believes Trump should not be credited with the tax overhaul undertaken during his administration, crediting former House Speaker Paul Ryan instead. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell the tax, that was Paul Ryan,\u201d Romney said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a policy-centric approach and if you don\u2019t have policy to match your rhetoric, ultimately, it\u2019s not going to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) publicly questioned why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) polls so poorly during a press conference after announcing his retirement from the Senate on Wednesday. \u201cI have a great deal of respect for Leader McConnell and one of the mysteries to me is why he is so unpopular in national polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2031013","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=2031013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}