Uniparty RINO Leader Mitch McConnell Reaches For One More Power Grab In Senate Leadership Vote

Today is the secret vote. Why? Why hide from We, the people? “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Louis Brandeis

We need a MAGA Senate Majority Leader. The idea that we would go with a RINO, a spineless, gutless Republican is unacceptable. Can not happen.

We cannot have a repeat of Trump’s first term where McConnell actively worked against Trump’s agenda.

Mitch McConnell’s Secret ‘Coup’ to Derail Trump’s Plans and Install a RINO Senate Majority Leader

Senate Republicans will gather Wednesday morning to pick a successor to GOP leader Mitch McConnell. The contest is between Sens. John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida, with allies of President-elect Donald Trump making a late push on Scott’s behalf. Senators, of course, don’t much like being pressured—they only have to run every six years and so are less susceptible (though not immune) to the threat of a GOP primary from the party’s Trump wing. More important, the vote for leader will happen behind closed doors via secret ballot. That doesn’t mean Scott can’t win, but it does mean that a majority of Republicans would really have to believe he’s best equipped to lead the new majority come January.

House Republicans will also get together Wednesday, and are expected to vote—also behind closed doors via secret ballot—to keep Mike Johnson as speaker. But then things will get interesting, in a way only the House can. The real choice of speaker will be made by the full House in January, on the floor on live television. Even if Johnson has overwhelming support, the very narrow margin in the chamber means just a handful of GOP defections would stop him from winning on the first ballot. (Lest anyone forget, it took 15 ballots for the House to elect Kevin McCarthy speaker two years ago.)

No one expects a repeat of that drama this time around, but the last couple of years in politics have taught us that making predictions is a bad idea.

—Ben Pershing, politics editor, Wall Street Journal

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Trump/We have a landslide.

Trump/We have a mandate.

We need a MAGA Senate Majority Leader. The idea that we would go with a RINO, a spineless, gutless Republican is unacceptable. Can not happen.

Not this time.

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Mitch McConnell Reaches For One More Power Grab In Senate Leadership VoteB

By: M.D KittleThe Federalist,, November 24, 2024

‘He may be giving up the leadership position but I think he wants to maintain control,’ Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis, said of McConnell.

A little over a week after a red wave election rolled Republicans back in control of the Senate, an internal election awaits Wednesday morning to determine who will lead the newly minted majority.

The rapid-fire leadership election, churning up infighting just days after big electoral victories, is the work of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the center of power in the Senate Republican Conference for nearly 20 years.
‘Outrageous Violation’

McConnell announced in February he would step down as Republican leader at the end of the year, closing out his time as the long-serving party leader in the history of the Senate. The 82-year-old Kentucky Republican, who served as majority leader from 2015 to 2021, exits the leadership post with one more power grab, one of his sharpest critics says.

“He may be giving up the leadership position but I think he wants to maintain control,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Tuesday afternoon on the “Vicki McKenna Show” in Milwaukee and Madison.

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McConnell’s departure and the shift in Senate control has sparked a three-way battle for Senate majority leader. In the running are Sen. Rick Scott of Florida and McConnell acolytes, Sens. John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas — the latter two establishment Republicans and consummate yes men to their mentor McConnell. Thune, Senate Republican whip, appears to hold the edge in the election, but he’s had a rocky relationship with Trump over the years — just like boss McConnell whose loathing of the president-elect is well known. Thune has urged Trump to stay out of the Senate’s leadership contest.

Thune joined the chorus of swamp creatures on the right and left painting Trump as an insurrectionist for challenging the results of the rigged 2020 election.

“What former President Trump did to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power is inexcusable,” Thune said. The South Dakota senator eventually came around this year and endorsed Trump’s third presidential campaign.

Johnson was the first to voice his full-throated support for Scott, a fellow McConnell critic and “extraordinary individual,” the Wisconsin senator said. Johnson, Scott, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have served as a kind of conservative resistance front against McConnell’s establishment games and penchant for spending.

Johnson said it was an “outrageous violation” of McConnell’s leadership position to call the swift election designed to limit member input before Wednesday’s secret ballot election.

“This is something McConnell cooked up to just ramrod through the election to get the election results he wanted …” Johnson said. The leader’s critics say the Kentucky senator wants to continue to control the levers of Senate Republican leadership.

Some senators complained that Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., announced, without discussion, the leadership election would be held the week after the presidential election.

“So, I’m not happy with that. I think there are a number of people not happy,” Johnson said, adding that he was not “100 percent sure” the vote would take place Wednesday.
‘Business as Usual or …’

Senate Republicans held a candidate forum Tuesday evening, organized by Lee’s steering committee, Johnson said. But some of the members weren’t expected to be in attendance, instead opting to appear at an American Enterprise Institute dinner honoring McConnell.

Fox News Digital reported Tuesday night that Scott had picked up a couple more endorsements at the candidate forum. Senators told the news outlet that the event allowed for a wide-ranging discussion with the candidates. Lee threw his support behind Scott, as did Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Fox News reported.

Thune told reporters that he thought his colleagues asked “lots of good questions.” He resisted talking about where he thought his support stood, saying, “You never know until the voters vote.”

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