{"id":2206051,"date":"2024-03-25T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-rated-among-the-least-conservative-gop-senators-by-cpac\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T00:26:13","slug":"mcconnell-rated-among-the-least-conservative-gop-senators-by-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-rated-among-the-least-conservative-gop-senators-by-cpac\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell ranked as one of the least conservative Republican senators by CPAC"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmcconnell-rated-among-the-least-conservative-gop-senators-by-cpac%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=2206051&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>The Conservative Political Action Coalition rated\u200c Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a 68% &#8220;conservative rating,&#8221; comparable to Sen. Lindsey Graham and \u200bhigher than Sen. Susan Collins. McConnell&#8217;s score increased by 12% from last year. However, he lags behind Senators Mike Lee, J.D. Vance, and \u200cRand Paul, with Lee \u2062scoring a perfect 100%. McConnell\u200c announced he will step down as Senate GOP leader in November.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cpac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" Mitch McConnell (R-KY) \">The Conservative Political Action Coalition <\/a>gave Senate Minority Leader<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" Mitch McConnell (R-KY) \"> Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <\/a>a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"conservative\">conservative<\/a> rating\u201d of 68%, about on par with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lindsey-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" Mitch McConnell (R-KY) \">Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-SC) and ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/susan-collins\/\" title=\"Sen. Susan Collins\">Sen. Susan Collins<\/a> (R-ME), who received a score of 54%.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s score this year is 12% higher than last year when CPAC gave him a rating of 56%, but the Senate GOP leader finds himself far behind other Republicans in the conference like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Rand Paul (R-KY). Lee was the only Senate Republican to receive a 100%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lowest-scoring member of Republican leadership was Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who serves as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a> Republican Conference vice chairwoman. The West Virginia senator received a 66% score. The other lowest-scoring Republican senators were Thom Tillis (R-NC) with 65%, Mitt Romney (R-UT) with 59%, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) with 55%. Collins\u2019s score was significantly higher than last year when she received a 38% ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The release of this year\u2019s scores comes almost two months after the Senate minority leader<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2893835\/mitch-mcconnell-resigning-as-senate-gop-leader-in-november\/\"> announced<\/a> he would be stepping down as the upper chamber\u2019s Republican leader in November. The Kentucky senator is widely credited with cementing a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and the rulings from judges he helped confirm will be shaping the country for decades.\u00a0The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>reached out to McConnell\u2019s office for comment. <\/p>\n<p>However, Senate Republicans have been under increased tensions in recent months over McConnell\u2019s unrelenting support of Ukraine and the failed foreign aid and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-if-dems-try-to-pass-3-5t-far-left-wish-list-then-hell-yeah-gop-should-skip-town-like-tx-dems\/\" title=\"Graham: If Dems Try To Pass .5T Far-Left Wish List Then \u2018Hell Yeah\u2019 GOP Should Skip Town Like TX Dems\">border security bill<\/a> that caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/2840298\/mcconnell-gop-leadership-mocked-border-legislation\/\">GOP senators to rebuke leadership<\/a> for being \u201cout of touch\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brutal-marjorie-taylor-greene-destroys-nasty-ga-election-official-gabe-sterling-after-his-latest-attack-on-president-trump-and-herself\/\" title=\"BRUTAL! Marjorie Taylor Greene DESTROYS Nasty GA Election Official Gabe Sterling After His Latest Attack on President Trump and Herself\">conservative voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incredible diversity of issues touched on by these amendments has helped differentiate establishment Republicanism from the true constitutional conservatives more than ever,\u201d CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp said in a statement. \u201cDespite the presence of more opportunities to vote on key issues and their majority in the House, Republicans generally failed to have any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-gop-majority-failed-to-get-conservative-wins-cpacs-schlapp\/\" title=\"The recent GOP majority at CPAC did not achieve desired conservative victories, as stressed by Schlapp\">major positive effect<\/a> on the overall state of affairs in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen House Republicans received a perfect score, including Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Greg Steube (R-FL), and Dan Bishop (R-NC). House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) scored 91%. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 74-page report card <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2936660\/new-gop-majority-failed-to-get-conservative-wins-cpacs-schlapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shared\">shared<\/a> with <em>The Washington Examiner<\/em> grades all House and Senate members on their votes on several policies conservative voters care about. In the new report, the 53rd done by the group, the number of votes scored was expanded because there was more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">action<\/a> on Republican policies.<\/p>\n<p>According to CPAC, the report was generated by a compilation of every vote taken last session of Congress across a wide array of issues like fiscal matters, taxation, regulation, education, the environment, Second Amendment rights, election security, life, and government integrity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Political Action Coalition evaluated Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) with a &#8220;conservative rating&#8221; of 68%, similar to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and higher than Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) at 54%. McConnell&#8217;s current score increased by 12% from last year&#8217;s rating by CPAC which placed him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2206052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24058730633438-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24058730633438-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206051","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\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}