Trump Made Voters Think Republicans 'Nasty,'
Chaotic, Mitch McConnell Says
Newsweek,
by
Nick Mordowanec
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/23/2022 6:24:54 PM
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid blame on former President Donald Trump and a segment of his base for critical losses in key states during last month's midterm elections. McConnell told NBC News on Wednesday that Republicans failed to take the Senate due to Trump's hand-picked candidates, and promised to back "quality candidates" in the 2024 primaries. He also said Trump's "political clout has diminished."
"We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party—largely made by the former president—that we were sort of nasty and tended toward chaos,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/23/2022 6:28:43 PM (No. 1363546)
So called “moderates” were likely voting Dem and you know it, liar.
46 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/23/2022 6:31:05 PM (No. 1363547)
As much as I dislike Mitch McConnell, there is a kernel of truth in what he is saying, and the media amplified it 1000 times over.
6 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 12/23/2022 6:33:04 PM (No. 1363551)
Wow. He’s been trying to trample and choke the last gasps of theAmerica loved outside the beltway since 2008 and Trumps the one no one wants to follow. How did we not recognize what a corrupt anti American leader we had here?
33 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
minuteman 12/23/2022 6:33:32 PM (No. 1363552)
Mitch McConnell makes voters feel that Republicans are corrupt cowards.
70 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Scribelus 12/23/2022 6:40:32 PM (No. 1363554)
President Trump upset McConnell’s sweet deal.
59 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/23/2022 6:41:14 PM (No. 1363555)
Every time I settle on the one politician in Washington that I despise the most, another puts itself front and center by opening its stupid, lying, vicious mouth, and I have to re-evaluate.
56 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 12/23/2022 6:51:15 PM (No. 1363557)
Appears mitch wants sheep to stand in the pasture that the swamp formed
25 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
66Strat 12/23/2022 6:54:05 PM (No. 1363558)
McConnell makes me want to become an Independent. It belittles us all to belong to an organization so corrupt and devoid of principles.
44 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/23/2022 6:55:41 PM (No. 1363559)
As opposed to weak loser pussies, the way Mitch and the GOPe like it.
33 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ruthless 12/23/2022 6:57:35 PM (No. 1363562)
McConnell has become quite wealthy simply by abandoning the conservative voters, refusing to fund their chosen candidates, and passing out his bank account number for any and all depositers. I WILL NOT vote for any "Republican" in DC again.
29 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/23/2022 6:58:12 PM (No. 1363563)
McConnell and the GOPe are good ole boys who thrive on business as usual. Never fix anything, just go along get along and build their personal wealth to billionaire status over their life terms in the Senate. The Senate has become an investment scheme where ordinary Mitch’s can come in as broke hillbillies and leave as billionaires. They have never done anything significant since he’s been in office.
29 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/23/2022 7:04:56 PM (No. 1363568)
One of the greatest things Trump has done is force the slime out of their rat holes, so everyone can see who they really are. McConnell doesn't care at all about Republican voters.
40 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/23/2022 7:08:11 PM (No. 1363570)
....and Trump was right.
36 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
David Key 12/23/2022 7:08:54 PM (No. 1363571)
McConnell makes us think lying sack of a RINO manure. Why do I want to hear this clown bloviate after he bad talked our candidates and pulled out money he had committed. We lose seats by a few points after being outspent ten to one and he shoots his mouth off about Trump and bad candidates. How about
poor leadership.
24 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 12/23/2022 7:11:08 PM (No. 1363572)
Mitch has very clearly made it us against them. If you want us to leave Trump, you failed bigly.
30 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/23/2022 7:15:08 PM (No. 1363575)
I’m willing to consider the statement, since I don’t have any deep knowledge of what all other Republicans think.
It would be helpful for me to consider his position if he would give some of the facts and reasoning that underlies his opinion. “Candidates underperformed” is meaningless without detail, for example did the Republicans fund them fully adequately?
I can see the “chaos” bit, what with jim acunta haranguing in the white house press room. And that chaos gets pinned on Trump. Compared to Bush who got real quiet and kept mum when our efforts in iraq were being undermined; there was no chaos, just quiet surrender.
Perhaps mitch thinks quiet surrender is best so the Ukraine funding can be doubled uninterruptedly without these chaotic complaints about it. Perhaps The Gullibles prefer the quiet too, happier not to have the squabbling about who’s stealing what from who.
10 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 12/23/2022 7:20:27 PM (No. 1363578)
Yes, he made me think the Turtle is a nasty, slimy swamp creature.
17 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 12/23/2022 7:30:52 PM (No. 1363585)
#5 is exactly right.
Donald Trump really was never the real problem. ANYONE outside of the cocktail circuit of the DC in crowd would have received the same treatment, although I doubt anyone else would have survived to reach election day. They fired half a dozen shots before the election that would have made others cave. They were sure they had him with the Access Hollywood tape. He stood strong. Then full bore on Russia Collusion, the "pee" tape, etc, and still he came at them only to actually win the election. That's when the kicking, screaming and gnashing of teeth exploded. They expanded the spying, the set-up of Flynn, Page, Papadopoulos, Impeachment's one and two the constant "gottcha" every day and numerous other "bombshell's" all the way until today, two YEARS after he left office with the silly Jan.6 committee.
Imagine working with many people like McConnell. Backstabbing swap dwellers. He claims Trump was nasty? McConnell led the pack as all American's were at the receiving end of a nasty backstabbing moment it was last night and the passage of the $1.7T inflation booster last night.
If Trump was "nasty" he had every right to be.
28 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/23/2022 7:38:07 PM (No. 1363589)
I would choose better adjectives, like cowardly, lazy, back-stabbing, duplicitous and deceitful.
10 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/23/2022 8:02:18 PM (No. 1363600)
If anyone cost us the Senate it was Mitch "the turtle" McConnell.
21 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Vitaman 12/23/2022 8:06:26 PM (No. 1363602)
Look in the mirror, Mitch.
16 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/23/2022 8:08:48 PM (No. 1363603)
How is the wife and the Red Chinese Communist Father in law, you scum traitor?
16 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 12/23/2022 8:28:22 PM (No. 1363611)
McConnell is a snake and needs to be voted out of office.
11 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/23/2022 9:02:20 PM (No. 1363625)
When republicans beg for campaign money and votes then vote with the democrats "nasty" is a nice word for them.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Right Time 12/23/2022 9:03:20 PM (No. 1363627)
McConnell is a lying turtle.
For the last 30 years, the Democrats on the Left, especially the LeftMedia (i.e., CNN, ABC.NBC, CBs, NPR, MSNBC,NYT, WaPo, etc.) have been slandering the Republicans as the nasty, EVIL Party that wants to starve grandma and make her eat cat food.
Heck, they hyped the Jan 6 protests as an attempted coup d'etat, meanwhile they downplayed the BLM burning of cities as "mostly peaceful'"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/23/2022 9:09:18 PM (No. 1363630)
No...
He revealed the ruthless selfish cruelty of the Swamp. Everything he said simply lifted our hearts that finally, someone had our back. Someone saw what we saw, and was in a position to do something about. Even his failures proved what we suspected to be true: there was a hidden government, betraying the people they had sworn to serve, who considered us nothing more that cattle and cattle for their use.
Our claws, up till now, had been sheathed with respect to our government, our sworn servants who promised to do their best FOR us. But now that we know... The claws are coming out and we will rend you. Trump, revealed our real enemies. Now, we will rend you.
10 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
judy 12/23/2022 9:10:55 PM (No. 1363632)
Mitch ..the one with the lowest ratings in congress is trashing Trump??? Envy...pure Envy...The ones who voted Mitch back in as the so called leader is farrrrr worse!
8 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Axeman 12/23/2022 9:28:43 PM (No. 1363643)
I think of the GOPes as "sort of evil and tending towards fascism."
You can quote me on that.
And Demzis are not "sort of", they are full evil fascist and tending towards communism.
I don't think little mitch has a big fan club in real America.
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Californian 12/23/2022 9:40:29 PM (No. 1363650)
McConnell made voters think Republics are Democrats and hate this country and everyone in it.
Ukraine funding is the #1 most important thing, right Mitch?
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
cold porridge 12/23/2022 10:33:27 PM (No. 1363666)
Mitch is just another Harry Reid. A corrupt criminal snake way past his time to leave the senate and considering his age, hopefully nearing his last few days. Nasty, angry snake.
9 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
TJ54 12/23/2022 11:27:07 PM (No. 1363674)
I would urinate on McConnell if I saw him - ultimate faux Republican and trash
3 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
JimBob 12/23/2022 11:40:16 PM (No. 1363686)
I have to say that McConnell shepherded two decent people through the process and on to the Supreme Court. THAT has made a positive difference.
Other than that, McConnel apparently strives to be in the minority side of the Uniparty -so he does not have to lead- but he likes to have enough 'controlled opposition' votes that he can get the perks he wants included the Democ'RAT -passed disaster bills.
Bottom line, we are headed for Disaster while The Turtle feathers his nest.
3 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 12/24/2022 12:52:25 AM (No. 1363706)
McConnell is a liar.
4 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/24/2022 12:55:45 AM (No. 1363708)
Real Trump Voters Know that Mitch McConnell is a 'Nasty' Piece of --- um Work. His DC paycheck is a pittance compared to what the Chinese give him. Nobody uses the term turncoat any more.
3 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
judy 12/24/2022 2:42:03 AM (No. 1363725)
The fake republican senators who voted Mitch back in as leader are more sickening than he is!
2 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
mifla 12/24/2022 4:52:17 AM (No. 1363745)
Says the man who interfered with Alaska's election and hung other Republicans out to dry.
Thanks for the additional $1.7T worth of inflation.
2 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/24/2022 5:59:20 AM (No. 1363769)
McConnell is earning his CCP Payday... Goddamn anyone who ever voted for this wholly owned asset of the Chinese Communist Party!
2 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/24/2022 6:30:54 AM (No. 1363781)
Liar.
1 person likes this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/24/2022 7:18:05 AM (No. 1363811)
“Quality candidates”? You mean like Federman and Hobbs? Gimme a break.
2 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/24/2022 7:25:40 AM (No. 1363814)
We knew that it was only a matter of time before the Turtle pointed his fat, crooked finger at somebody else to deflect the blame. The vast majority of of Trump's hand-picked people won and several others did not make it due to democrat cheating, which Mitch denies and avoids mentioning. This guy needs to be slow smoked over a nice backwoods Kentucky Apple wood fire and basted all over with Sweet Baby Ray's.
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
NamVet70 12/24/2022 8:44:46 AM (No. 1363854)
RINO GOP are angry because Trump forced them to reveal their true nature.
1 person likes this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
red1066 12/24/2022 10:31:59 AM (No. 1363978)
Whereas McConnell makes Republicans look like someone who is bent over at the waist saying give it to me.
0 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
BigTimeTrumper 12/24/2022 10:57:18 AM (No. 1364011)
Sad that the American people allow these preening old goats to thrive on lifetime salaries if deposed...All manner of legal and illegal graft, bribes, kickbacks and insider trades when there is a simple solution.... Term Limits and no lifetime income from their one "win"!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/24/2022 1:07:51 PM (No. 1364093)
Sometimes it is better to keep one’s mouth shut, McConnell should know that by now.
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