Mitch McConnell is planning for what happens next after the election.
He’s not going to be a team player.
And Mitch McConnell made one prediction that will leave Trump supporters seeing red.
Mitch McConnell ready to spar with Senate conservatives
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (RINO-KY) time leading the Senate Republican caucus is coming to an end.
He’s stepping down as the Republican Senate “leader” after 17 years, which will make him the longest-serving party “leader” in Senate history.
A vote is scheduled to choose his successor the week after the election.
Like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who stepped down as Speaker of the House after the last election cycle, he’ll still wield enormous influence over Senate Republicans, even if he isn’t officially their “leader.”
Republicans are almost certain to flip control of the Senate from Democrats this election.
Democrats are playing defense in the red states of West Virginia, Montana, and Ohio with no good offensive targets for their side.
Former President Donald Trump could be returning to the White House with Republicans in control of Congress, depending on how Election Day shakes out.
Trump wants to hit the ground running next year if Republicans have the House and Senate, but he could have one potential obstacle thwarting his agenda.
McConnell said that he expects to battle the Trump and America First conservatives next year in the Senate.
“I’m still a traditional Republican,” McConnell said. “There are some on my side now who don’t sound that way. I’m going to be arguing more with them probably than the Democrats.”
He’s stated that the top priority for the Republican Party needs to be continuing to fund the war in Ukraine, which would set him on a collision course with Senate Republicans who support Trump’s America First agenda.
McConnell is going to try to influence any major piece of legislation that comes through the Senate next year.
New biography reveals McConnell’s contempt for Trump and his political movement
Author Michael Tackett wrote a new biography of McConnell entitled The Price of Power, where the Kentucky RINO spilled the beans on his thoughts about Trump and the MAGA movement.
McConnell claimed the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Trump has “done a lot of damage to our party’s image and our ability to compete.”
He was frustrated that Trump reoriented the Republican Party on immigration, trade deals, and using military power abroad.
“Unfortunately, about half of the Republicans in the country believe whatever he says,” McConnell said.
McConnell told the author he thought Trump was a “sleazeball,” a “narcissist,” and “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.”
He and Trump didn’t speak after January 6 until last June.
The Kentucky lawmaker endorsed Trump for President after he clinched the Republican nomination and claimed that any hostility was water under the bridge.
“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,” McConnell stated.
Mitch McConnell will be a roadblock to Donald Trump’s agenda next year if he wins the election.
