{"id":2421344,"date":"2025-04-08T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-calls-mcconnells-vote-against-elbridge-colby-political-pettiness-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:38:55","slug":"vance-calls-mcconnells-vote-against-elbridge-colby-political-pettiness-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-calls-mcconnells-vote-against-elbridge-colby-political-pettiness-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance calls McConnell\u2019s vote against Elbridge Colby \u2018political pettiness\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">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%2Fvance-calls-mcconnells-vote-against-elbridge-colby-political-pettiness-washington-examiner%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=2421344&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>vice President JD Vance criticized Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for his vote against Elbridge Colby,a nominee for undersecretary of defense for policy under President Trump. Colby was confirmed by the Senate with a 54-45 vote; McConnell was the only Republican to oppose him. Vance labeled mcconnell&#8217;s opposition as &#8220;political pettiness,&#8221; expressing his disapproval of McConnell&#8217;s rationale, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fishing-industry-pushes-back-on-biden-admin-mega-wind-project\/\" title=\"Fishing Industry Pushes Back On Biden Admin Mega Wind Project\">included concerns<\/a> over Colby&#8217;s perceived isolationism and approach to foreign policy. McConnell argued that Colby&#8217;s views could harm America&#8217;s global standing, especially in relation to its allies and strategic interests. despite stepping down from Senate GOP leadership,McConnell has continued to vote against multiple Trump nominees.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance calls McConnell&rsquo;s vote against Elbridge Colby &lsquo;political pettiness&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2077333\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"JD Vance\">JD Vance<\/a> took aim at Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mitch McConnell\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY) for his vote against one of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s Pentagon nominees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elbridge-colby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elbridge Colby\">Elbridge Colby<\/a>, Trump&rsquo;s pick for undersecretary of defense for policy, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday in a 54-45 vote. McConnell was the only Republican to vote against Colby&rsquo;s confirmation, while three Democrats, Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), voted in favor of his confirmation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3374132\/rand-paul-leads-senate-push-repeal-trump-liberation-day-tariffs\/\">Rand Paul leads Senate push to repeal Trump &lsquo;Liberation Day&rsquo; tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3374088\/ron-johnson-urges-house-republicans-hold-off-passing-trump-budget-plan\/\">Ron Johnson urges House Republicans to &#8216;hold off&#8217; passing Trump budget plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3373728\/texas-democrats-2026-senate-race-ken-paxton-john-cornyn\/\">Texas Democrats look forward to &#8216;very fun times&#8217; if Paxton challenges Cornyn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impossible-gop-picked-up-seats-in-house-picked-up-state-legislatures-picked-up-governorship-held-the-senate-but-sniffy-joe-won-not-a-chance\/\" title=\"IMPOSSIBLE: GOP Picked Up Seats in House, Picked Up State Legislatures, Picked Up Governorship, Held the ... -- But Sniffy Joe Won?... NOT A CHANCE\">senate seat<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Vance personally introduced Colby for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee last month. In response to a post on X, which included McConnell&rsquo;s statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-sends-harris-to-space\/\" title=\"Biden Sends Harris to Space\">vice president called<\/a> the Kentucky Republican&rsquo;s vote &ldquo;political pettiness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mitch&rsquo;s vote today&mdash;like so much of the last few years of his career&mdash;is one of the great acts of political pettiness I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; Vance said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mitch&rsquo;s vote today&mdash;like so much of the last few years of his career&mdash;is one of the great acts of political pettiness I&rsquo;ve ever seen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qg6eAOqW4J\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qg6eAOqW4J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1909660275583709358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>McConnell issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-shreds-the-los-angeles-times-over-hit-piece-attacking-him-for-attending-sons-wedding-with-family\/\" title=\"Kevin McCarthy Shreds The Los Angeles Times Over Hit Piece Attacking Him For Attending Son\u2019s Wedding With Family\">lengthy statement<\/a> Tuesday explaining why he opposed Colby&rsquo;s confirmation to the Pentagon position. He cited Colby&rsquo;s isolationism and past statements on Iran and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elbridge Colby&rsquo;s long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy. The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy,&rdquo; McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his lengthy statement by declaring, &ldquo;Make no mistake: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3374088\/ron-johnson-urges-house-republicans-hold-off-passing-trump-budget-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"RON JOHNSON URGES HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO &lsquo;HOLD OFF&rsquo; PASSING TRUMP BUDGET PLAN\">RON JOHNSON URGES HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO &lsquo;HOLD OFF&rsquo; PASSING TRUMP BUDGET PLAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McConnell, 83, stepped down from Senate GOP leadership at the end of the last Congress and has said he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3324898\/mcconnell-senate-retirement-seven-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"not seek another term\">not seek another term<\/a> in his Senate seat in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Since stepping down from leadership, he has voted against several <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">key nominees pushed forward<\/a> by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2077333\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2077333\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance criticizes McConnell&#8217;s vote against Colby as &#8216;petty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2421345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jd-vance-speaking-event-march-2025.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50539,53089,53090,15469],"class_list":["post-2421344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-elbridge-colby","tag-mcconnell-2","tag-political-pettiness","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jd-vance-speaking-event-march-2025.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421344","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421348,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421344\/revisions\/2421348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}