Several current Republican senators will run for president in the next election cycle, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday. McConnell during a Fox News appearance responded to former President Donald Trump, a possible candidate who again criticized the longtime senator earlier in the day. “We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not done a great job. I think they should change Mitch McConnell.” The relationship between the two Republicans has frayed for months. McConnell said that Republicans are “looking in the future, not the past.” He pointed to Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s speech on Wednesday night, saying Scott “is the future” and laid out where the Republican Party has arrived. Trump also said, “100 percent I’m thinking about running,” noting that he drew some 12 million more votes in the 2020 election than he received in 2016. McConnell affirmed on Fox that …
Several current Republican senators will run for president in the next election cycle, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday. McConnell during a Fox News appearance responded to former President Donald Trump, a possible candidate who again criticized the longtime senator earlier in the day. “We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not
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