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McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:14 pm
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This goes to the point that McConnell and Ryan don't support the agenda. Also, they have no love for the man. McConnell is very lucky the map favors the Senate GOP so strongly in 2018.
This goes to the point that McConnell and Ryan don't support the agenda. Also, they have no love for the man. McConnell is very lucky the map favors the Senate GOP so strongly in 2018.
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The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises.
What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.
The rupture between Mr. Trump and Mr. McConnell comes at a highly perilous moment for Republicans, who face a number of urgent deadlines when they return to Washington next month. Congress must approve new spending measures and raise the statutory limit on government borrowing within weeks of reconvening, and Republicans are hoping to push through an elaborate rewrite of the federal tax code. There is scant room for legislative error on any front.
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Yet Mr. Trump and Mr. McConnell are locked in a political cold war. Neither man would comment for this story. Don Stewart, a spokesman for Mr. McConnell, noted that the senator and the president had “shared goals,” and pointed to “tax reform, infrastructure, funding the government, not defaulting on the debt, passing the defense authorization bill.”
Still, the back-and-forth has been dramatic.
In a series of tweets this month, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. McConnell publicly, then berated him in a phone call that quickly devolved into a profane shouting match.
During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.
Mr. McConnell has fumed over Mr. Trump’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned Mr. Trump’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing Mr. Trump as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.
In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
While maintaining a pose of public reserve, Mr. McConnell expressed horror to advisers last week after Mr. Trump’s comments equating white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., with protesters who rallied against them. Mr. Trump’s most explosive remarks came at a news conference in Manhattan, where he stood beside Ms. Chao. (Ms. Chao, deflecting a question about the tensions between her husband and the president she serves, told reporters, “I stand by my man — both of them.”)
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:15 pm to Rakim
McConnell has an 18% approval rating in his home state
That is embarrassing
That is embarrassing
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:16 pm to Rakim
Establishment is FRICKED in 2018
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:16 pm to Rakim
frick McConnell. I hate him almost as much as Reid.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:16 pm to Rakim
McConnell with his 18% approval rating is thankful he isn't running for awhile.
The incompetent mother frickers are absolutely desperate to use Trump as an excuse for their continuing 7 year run of not doing jack shite.
The incompetent mother frickers are absolutely desperate to use Trump as an excuse for their continuing 7 year run of not doing jack shite.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:17 pm to Rakim
McMconnell needs to go. He is worse than the sleeze that held the position prior to him...
This post was edited on 8/22/17 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:18 pm to Rakim
Do you think McConnell is aware that he has a 18% approval with Kentucky voters?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:18 pm to Rakim
He didn't think Trump could win. At best that would make him 50% at worst 0. Either way he is over payed
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:20 pm to Rakim
Sure are a lot of approval rating polls conveniently being used as legitimate supporting evidence in this thread.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:21 pm to Stagg8
If you're sub 20 it's hard to fake those numbers
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:21 pm to Rakim
The President has them right where he want them
MAGA
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:24 pm to Rakim
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McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency
I, in private, doubts if McConnell can save the Senate and his career.
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This goes to the point that McConnell and Ryan don't support the agenda. Also, they have no love for the man.
No shite.
Trump pretty much ran against them back in the primaries and general election and they still haven't forgotten it and repaying the favor back in tenfold by stabbing his agenda in the back.
McConnell and Ryan will respect the will of the voters more when their stooges get serious and credible primary threats.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:26 pm to gthog61
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The incompetent mother frickers are absolutely desperate to use Trump as an excuse for their continuing 7 year run of not doing jack shite.
And I support Trump absolutely refusing to let them get away with cowardly bullshite like that.
That's tantamount to slander and defamation and I wouldn't stand for it either.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:27 pm to Bunyan
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If you're sub 20 it's hard to fake those numbers
"Survey of 645 voters"
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:27 pm to Rakim
No thanks to him. He's a certified dickhead.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:29 pm to Rakim
quote:NCTigah, in Private, Doubts if McConnell Can Save His Leadership Position.
McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency
This post was edited on 8/22/17 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:29 pm to Rakim
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with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators
This is what needs to happen.
This is the only thing that saves Trumps agenda
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:31 pm to BigD13
quote:Correct.
This is the only thing that saves Trumps agenda
But much more importantly, this is the only thing that saves the GOP's agenda
Posted on 8/22/17 at 6:32 pm to Mr.Perfect
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I hate that guy. And Ryan.
Add Graham and McCain.......GOP establishment cucks
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